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I think the “strange fruit” that is referenced in the title is referring to the lynching of black people, specifically black men, which took place in the early to mid-20th century in the United States. Meeropol uses fruit as a metaphor in his poem since lynching victims were hung trees, similar to fruits. The strangeness of the “fruit” that hangs from the tree is both because there are human beings hanging from the tree and not fruits, and from the fact that the racism and lynching that took place were morally wrong, or
The topic of this essay is the poem Hamðismál. This poem is about the aftermath of a woman, Svanhildr, being killed, and the actions taken by her family to avenge her death. An introduction will be given to the poem in terms of what it is about and events leading up to her killing, and the events that took place after her death.
Bearing this in mind, we see that he inserts those mythical figures into the political contexts. As Jean-Michel Rabaté puts it in his Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos, he “connects the world of ancient myth with the actualities of political synthesis. For Pound needs the concept of ‘gods’ and ‘myth’ precisely because he wants to avoid of the fate of Sordello; gods reconcile time and eternity’s concern” (63). Moreover, his allusions to Dante and Homer shouldn’t be overlooked in his search of order of values as Perkins states that “He was Odysseus, but he was voyaging in order to choose the purpose of his voyage. He was Dante in the dark wood and he hoped that if he went through the chaos of experience and history, he would gradually see that it had a structure” (232). In this regard, we can infer that he attempts to produce an order on the page or rather in his mind through his method of putting various people, incidents, and civilizations side by
Hence Kijiner’s use of poetic techniques and video performance of “Dear Matafele Peinam” spreads a very heartfelt and persuasive message on climate change and its effects of a community many people may never visit. It is a call to arms, to me, to you and your friends to fight against the so called blindfolded bureaucracies, to stand up against corporate greed and fight for our world together. This message is new, and wouldn’t have been understood by Shakespeare or McCrae, and is modern in todays world where it is one of the biggest threats humanity currently faces, and will continue to face if things don’t change. Thus it is through poetry that Kijiner has spread this message through the form of video to thousands of people who have since inspired
A tragic event took place in the life of Maya Angelou. She was a small child, only 7 years old. That would mean that she was only the age of a average 1st grader. She was sexually assaulted and raped by her mother’s boyfriend at the time. Maya was not allowed to see her mother very often and it is horrible that this had to happen at one of the only times she should have been so happy and enjoying herself. Maya lived very far away from her mother and usually was at her grandmother’s. These visits were few and far between to say the least. Shortly after this, Maya’s uncle killed the man who raped her in order to get revenge on him for what he had done. His actions, although meant to be good and for the better, messed things up even more. This did not help and added to the stress of the entire situation. It was too much for Maya to handle all at one time and at such a young age. She stopped talking for a very long time. It was very hard for her to cope with what had happened. Maya’s poetry conveys the sadness and the struggle that she went through in this time of her life. Maya Angelou's poetry contains bold messages and gives a voice to individuals who, at times, do not have the courage or ability to speak for themselves. Just as she did not have the ability to speak for all those years, she is an example to others in situations that are similar to her own. Three poems that the subject of empowerment is very profound in are “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings”, “Still I Rise”, and “Phenomenal Woman.”
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The titles of both poems have extreme symbolic imagery to grab the readers attention and get them thinking. In “Strange Fruit” the word strange is immediately associated with something that is different, weird, ugly, disgusting, unwelcoming, and bizarre. On the other hand, fruit is something sweet, delicious, and healthy. When they are united together the image that is revealed is this disgusting rotten fruit that is hanging from a tree or is fallen on ground and everyone is trying to avoid it, while at the same time make fun of it. When the title is put into context of the poem and the era it happened in it is very sad to hear how African-Americans were getting lynched on trees and everyone would look at them as this different, ugly, weird object and not humanly. Conversely, the symbol of the two words strange and fruit is very diverse and one is more positive while the other is negative, but when combined together they have a totally contrasting connotation and are presented in different ways. When one says the word strange fruit right away you assume this fruit is either spoiled, squished, or disgusting, but you never consider the positive or good side of it. Back in the nineteen hundreds there was a lot of racism between white and colour people. Sadly enough, coloured people were viewed and described as this strange fruit just because they
Strange fruit is and amazing dark poem told by Billie Holiday as very powerful song. Strange Fruit is a terrifying protest against the inhumane acts of racism. Strange Fruit was about the murders and lynching going on in the south at the time from public hangings to burnings. The south has a cruel and terrifying past that haunts the very people who still live down there and remind them that only a short time ago was no one prosecuted for killing someone of dark skin since whole towns were involved in it.
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