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- “Strange Fruit” is one of two poems written by Heaney upon seeing in a museum corpses exhumed from the Arrhus boglands in Denmark.
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“Strange Fruit” is one of two poems written by Heaney upon seeing in a museum corpses exhumed from the Arrhus boglands in Denmark.
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Jun 3, 2016 · Here’s Seamus Heaney, first talking about his poems on the bog bodies of Iron Age Europe, in Dennis O’Driscoll’s Stepping Stones, and then the bog poems themselves, spanning three of his collections: Wintering Out, North, and District and Circle.
One of the most critically acclaimed poems from Seamus Heaney's North (1975), ‘Strange Fruit’ is indebted to a poem by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish man who had been ‘haunted … for days’ 1 on seeing a photograph of a lynching in which the bodies of two black men hang from trees above a crowd of spectators.
- Gail McConnell
- 2017
Strange Fruit. In his creative imagination Heaney stands alongside anthropologists engaged with the bodiless head of a young woman similar to one retrieved (exhumed) from the Roum Fen in north Denmark in 1942.
Dec 23, 2017 · Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was a giant of Northern Irish poetry. He translated Beowulf into lively, modern language. Heaney was an immensely popular ambassador of poetry. Today, I read ‘Strange fruit’ – what a muscular and earthly use of language: Strange Fruit. Here is the girl’s head like an exhumed gourd.
I One of the most critically acclaimed poems from Seamus Heaney’s North (1975), ‘Strange Fruit’ is indebted to a poem by Abel Meeropol, a Jewish man who had been ‘haunted . . . for days’1 on seeing a photograph of a lynching in which the bodies of two black men hang from trees above a crowd of spectators.
“Strange Fruit” is one of Seamus Heaney’s renowned poems that deals with the dark and heavy theme of violent death and brutal injustice. The title “Strange Fruit” itself is a potent symbol, drawing from the infamous Billie Holiday song about lynching and racial violence in America, while in Heaney’s poem it refers metaphorically to ...
