What Is The Tone Of Strange Fruit

Strange Fruit Strange fruit is a really good written poem by Abel Meeropol which describes how we used to hang black people by trees and watch without any disgust, sad thoughts, etc. This poem was published in 1937. This man, Abel Meeropol, was motivated to write this book after witnessing a lynch of two black teenagers. I believe that this poem symbolizes how the colored had lives too not just whites, and that it was wrong to do what we did in the past. In this poem by Abel Meeropol two teenagers have been hanged. Abel Meeropol had witnessed how whites had reacted to the lynchings back in that time. “Eighty years ago, two young African-American men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, were lynched in the town center of Marion, Ind.”. (NPR). This poem is being said in the perspective of the northern people. The strange fruit is the colored people who got hanged. “Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze”. (Meeropol 3). Abel Meeropol wrote this poem to show that it is bad to hang people. This poem gives my head horrible images of what people like me and everyone I know actually watched those lynchings and never got disgusted or did anything to stop them.

The tone of this poem is disgust. Disgust shows us how nasty this scene was at the time and how nasty it was to see people just watching without doing anything about it and not being disgusted. “Then the sudden smell of burnin’ flesh”. (Meeropol 8). The speaker shows how they are sad and disappointed to what we did at that time in history. These tones and emotions in this poem shows that it was bad to do what they did and we never should have done it, and it was also really disgusting. “ Blood on the leaves and blood at the root” (Meeropol 2). This poem relates to history because in the early nineteen hundreds the south had a lot of racism and they hanged black people quite a