Tone Of Strange Fruit

I’m going to talk about the famous poem, Strange Fruit. Abel Meeropol is the mysterious writer of the poem Strange Fruit. The poem Strange Fruit was published in 1937. Abel Meeropol was sent to court in 1940 because he had wrote Strange Fruit. To me the poem doesn’t seem like an act of protesting, to me it seems like he is just telling a story of what had happened. The problem was that this was in the 1930s and 1940s when racism was still a very big deal. Racism still exists today but it was worse back then. Abel Meeropol had two kids that he had adopted, Robert and Michael. He adopted them because their mother and father were going to be lynched for giving information to another country. They were eventually lynched and the two kids stayed

“Blood on the leaves and blood on the root” (2). The mood and/or tone of the poem could be described as haunting or frightening. The tone of the speaker in this poem is sorrow. The speaker feels sorrow because he/she is cheerless that someone had been hanged. “Black body swinging in the Southern breeze” (3). This poem/song relates to history because in this poem it shows how black people or African-Americans were tortured. In history blacks had been tortured for a long time. They were first tortured as slaves and if they didn’t obey their owner they would be killed. Later they had gotten freedom but there were rules permitting blacks to certain things like white people do what they want while blacks had to move and do tasks for whites. Next African-Americans were given freedom to do everything that whites could do. People were still racist because they didn’t like blacks. This shows how cruel blacks were treated in the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s. The sad thing is that racism still exists today in the modern world. Some people don’t know how to act so they can and choose to be

It talks about how black were treated, what happened when someone was hanged, and what it looked like when someone had been lynched. Abel Meeropol’s poem “Strange Fruit” shows the cruelty that African-American people, or mostly black people, when through. It shows that there were tough times like when people were lynched. Racism still exists today whether it is on social media or someone verbally saying it or someone physically being racist. We can learn from this poem that times can be tough and even worse and some point but all things, good or bad, have to end. We can, as a nation or a people, get pass all those problems. Abel Meeropol was very successful on achieving his message to stop and address the problem of cruelty. Abel has a strong and powerful poem that states this. Abel took a risk to publish and write the poem, then he took it. This poem is very powerful and dark. We can learn that looking through racism and cruelty can help us avoid lots of problems. This is a very enlightening and inspiring poem that can help us understand what happened back in the