Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit is a poem by Abel Meeropol written in 1939 was written to inform people about racism in an obvious fashion that explains the racism at the lynching in Marion killing two boys and harming another. The two boys were Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith were both African Americans who were lynched by a mob full of generally peaceful citizens who had been induced into mob mentality. Strange Fruit tells how cruel people could be when they are convinced that racism is the way to purge the land of blacks that have done wrong, Strange Fruit also talks in such a way that make people want to reimagine how they live and what they do to the Black community,there is also are strong comparisons to other ideas that people had of racism. Strange Fruit meaning is to inform people of the cruel and unjust people can be when they …show more content…
The poetic element is the racist metaphor easily found explained a lynching of African Americans. The tone of the poem is saddened by the lack of humanity for the African Americans and the discrimination that the white present to the African American people, only for their skin color. “Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze” (Meeropol 3). This describes how mostly how only Blacks were hung only for their crimes as most whites had been left to the judges to decide if they were innocent as most of the community had decided for the Blacks if they were worthy of living depending on how harsh the crime was. “That evening, local police were unable to stop a mob of thousands from breaking into the jail with sledgehammers and crowbars to pull the young men out of their cells and lynch them”(NPR). This shows how badly people wanted to get at the black people who had done, but they never did that to white people so that is the theme of the poem. The poem relates to history because many lynchings occurred to black people in the twentieth