For women of color‚ it is as if society was against them two times. As if being a woman is not already hard enough‚ don’t throw race into the picture as well! As this piece was viewed‚ my mind could hear “Strange Fruit” playing in the background. The struggle of living during such a depressing time is visible in the gaze of Miss Holiday. Ironically enough‚ since this painting as well as others in the gallery were of African American jazz musicians‚ I assumed that the artist themselves would also
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Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” The song “Strange Fruit” has something about it that you can never fully walk away from and forget. It could be the text itself so visualizing and dramatic‚ or the music that adds an even more haunting effect. The performer of course is the one who gets the social message across by the way they perform and the emotions they put into the song. Billie Holiday’s version makes this song stand out even more; a person can get the chills just listening to her sing it
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view of what the south looked like due to racism‚ “Southern trees bear a strange fruit/Blood on the leaves and blood at the root” (Lines 1-2). With this song‚ Holiday tries to paint an image on the audience of the horrible world that colored people had to live in back in the day. She mentions how people of color would be killed and just left there for others to see‚ “Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze/Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees… The bulgin’ eyes and the twisted mouth” (Lines
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A metaphorical reading of Abe Meeropol’s ‘Strange Fruit’ Meeropol’s poem‚ ‘Strange Fruit’‚ has different metaphorical readings within. Different readings of the poem present these different metaphors. The central metaphor‚ from the “root” of the poem‚ I believe is the ‘absurdity of the lynching’ of the African Americans in the southern states. This poem employs imagery of the brutality of the lynching; not only that‚ we get the sense of the smell of the south‚ “magnolia sweet and fresh”. Magnolia
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Smile”. He hated Hitler because of the Fuhrer’s Jewish persecutions and he drew similarities between the mistreatment of German Jews and the mistreatment of Blacks in America. His hatred of racism in America prompted him to write the song “Strange Fruit”‚ popularized by Billy Holliday. The song dealt with Southern Black lynching‚ using tormented images and stinging lyrics to impress its message. Abel said that he wrote the song “because he hated lynching and he hated the people who perpetuated
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"Strange Fruit" (Song) by Billy Holiday. The song "Strange Fruit" was first written as a poem by Abel Meerpol‚ a white high school teacher‚ who was also a Jew and a member of an American Communists Party. The poem exposes the problem of American racism‚ in particular‚ the lynching of Afro-Americans. The episodes of cruelty towards people with black skin occurred mostly in the South of US‚ but the problem was not unknown to other regions as well. Lynching had reached its highest point in the 1930s
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slam poet from Tucson ‚Arizona. He was born April 7‚1983. He wrote a book “Sonoran Strange”. He is a NAU alumni. He read a couple of poems but the first one was about himself and that he shared that he didn’t write much about himself and that was out of his comfort zone. He shared his personal experience at NAU when he attended and how his career developed. He put himself out there and overcame his fear. In first poem that he read he stated that his first word was “light.” He spoke about his ethnicity
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Lillian Smith’s Strange Fruit caused extreme controversy when it published. This was due to its language‚ its plot about a mixed race couple‚ and its outrageously precise portrayal of racial injustice in the 1920s south. During this time‚ white people had the upper hand and were not obligated to consider their intentions toward black people. However‚ Smith’s depictions transcend further than racial injustice. In addressing white people’s behavior toward black people‚ Strange Fruit illustrates the
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Cristia Earp Matt Cicci Intro to College Writing March 8‚ 2013 Strange Doctor Strange I’ve never been a big fan of comic books‚ partly because I can’t quite follow them as much as I’d like to. Action comics are the hardest for me to follow for a couple reasons. For one‚ the art is all over the place. I understand that art like this is supposed to display all of the sudden exhilarating scenes‚ but how can a reader pay attention to the story while still pictures on a page distract you? Bright
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the most is Strange Tools by Richard Rodriguez. It is a literacy narrative about a boy being introduced to the world of literature and how it progressed and changed his life. The thesis of Strange Tools is simply to open your heart and mind into anything because it could benefit you in miraculous ways‚ in this case that is reading. Another reason why Strange Tools influenced me‚ is because I can compare myself to Richard Hoggart‚ a boy that had no idea where books can lead them. Strange Tools was
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