Strange Fruit Essay

Southern trees bear a strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees. (1-4)
August 6, 1930: “They got me up to the tree and they got a rope and they put it around my neck. And they began to push me under the tree. And that's when I prayed to God. I said, 'Lord have mercy, forgive me my sins.' I was ready to die.” This what James Cameron was saying when he was going to be the next victim of the Indiana lynching. In the early 1900’s much prejudice and racism is to be found in the southern areas of the United States and there is a klan especially racist called the Klu Klux Klan. This group of people lynched and tortured many colored people and did horrific killings; however, this klan didn’t do the Indiana lynching, it was just average city folks that turned into a mob. A few years later a man by the name Abel Meeropol wrote the poem “Strange Fruit” in 1937 explaining the unhuman like nature of the lynching. I believe that “Strange Fruit” is an important poem and song in history to help the downfall of colored peoples rights in the United states.
The poem “Strange Fruit” is about making a
An example of the author carefully constructing the poem is that Meeropol shows his emotion with his words with intense thought put into each word: Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop Here is a strange and bitter crop (9-12). The author uses the poetic device “tone” to set the mood of the reader and he uses it to make the meaning more meaningful “Blood on the leaves and blood at the root”