Read the following poem. What is your interpretation of this work?
Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Abel Meeropol,(1932)
I think that the story is about the African American slaves.
ReplyDelete"Sudden smell of burning flesh"( Abel Meeropol) mean that the white people are burning the slaves.
It's talking about how blacks where killed, " bulging eyes and the twisted mouth" that means someone is being hanged. " black body swinging in the southern breeze". They comparing a piece of fruit swinging on the tree.
ReplyDeleteBlack body swinging in the southern breeze.s showing how the African American where hanged.
ReplyDeleteThis poem shows you how black people dies in the 1932 "black body's swinging on the tree" mean that there are black people dead on the trees and there swinging
ReplyDeleteWhat does that mean?
DeleteThe poem is show how they killed black people and leaves them there for everybody to see them "swinging from the tree" mean that they leave the body's there.
ReplyDeleteIt shows how the treated black people back in the day
ReplyDelete"Blood on the leaves and blood at the root" explains how rasict it was back then and how they would hang them and leave blood on the trees.
ReplyDeleteThe poem tells about someone hanging a black men.
ReplyDelete(Blood on the leaves blood at the root, Black body swinging in the southern breeze)
This poem is showing that a black person is being hanged. This person is feeling nothing for the dead body on the rope.
ReplyDeleteYeah I think that to.
DeleteThis show racism toward black people back then and what they would do to them and someone witness that.
ReplyDelete"Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze"
It's about how many people were racist and how the killed not just blacks but anyone they though was in the wrong
ReplyDeleteThe poetry peace is about someone that got hanged
ReplyDeleteBlood on the leaves and blood at the blood at the root
It his passage is talking about someone who got murdered because fruit does not bleed.
That's so cruel
DeleteThis poem is about African Americans being hung on an everyday basis.
ReplyDeleteThis is about a guy who was hung from a tree like "black body swinging in the southern breeze" (meelpol)
ReplyDeleteThis talk about how the south at one time killed blacks for no reason. So people just watched and they didn't care what happens to them.
ReplyDeleteSaying that basicly there comparing the hung bodies of the blacks with the fruits that had grown on the trees.
ReplyDeleteI think the poem is about a murder hanged in the woods "blood everywhere and bulging eyes and twisted mouth".
ReplyDeleteThis poem is about killing people it said (black people body swinging in the southern breeze)
ReplyDeleteIt's about people hanging black people and how it will be a bloody event
ReplyDeleteI think it's comparing the black people to fruit hanging on trees it says "Here is a fruit for crows to peck" which refers to crows and vultures to be scavengers .
ReplyDeleteThis poetry is about people getting murdered. A human bean hung by a tree bloody with their eyes popping out. "Blood on the leaves and blood on the root" explains to me that this is not a fruit.
ReplyDeleteBlack body swinging in the southern breezes showing how the African American where hanged.
ReplyDelete" Blood on leaves and blood at the root"
ReplyDeleteI think that the story is about people getting hanged on trees and blood coming out.