Strange Fruit Connection

Strange Fruit

Written by Abel Meeropol

Performed by Billie Holiday

1937

Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swingin’ in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’ from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant South
The bulgin’ eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burnin’ 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 the tree to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

In this poem, it talks about black people being hanged in public by people by racism. Also the poem shows how much the person suffers since their eyes are bulging out and the mouth is twisted. Finally, they see the body as a crop not a body and they let the body rot to bones. This poem relates To Kill A Mockingbird since the people are both racist and they both killed a person unjustly since they died by people who are filled with racism. They both also show that black people are being discriminated on and that they don’t care about their deaths.