When you think about the two poems “The Lynching” by Claude Mckay and “Strange Fruit” by Abel Meeropol, you realize that the poems have the same meaning. Both poems talk about lynching. Lynching is to kill someone especially by hanging for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial. Both poems are also has the setting of slavery. However, the poems can be compared, but the poems can also be contrasted. Both poems just don’t talk about people being hung. Both authors of the poems used words to give a central idea of what the open is mainly about. Claude Mckay uses phrases like “The ghastly body swaying in the sun” and “the cruelest way of pain”. Abel Meeropol uses phrases like “Blood on the leaves and blood on the root” and “Strange
