Lynching First everything is happy and then everything can turn around to something awful. Abel Meeropol and Billie Holiday came together to tell the story of “Strangefruit”. The poem “Strangefruit” is in the perspective of the omniscient in third person point of view. The speaker is third person omniscient the entire poem (1-12). This is in the occasion of hanging fruit. However this really symbolizes someone being lynched. As said in the poem “Black body swinging in the southern breeze /Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees” (3,4). Any reader is the audience in this poem (1-12). In the poem the speaker wants us to see the handing of fruit. Although the speaker really wants the audience to have a feeling of disapproval, “Blood on
