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Expectations

Great

Preparedness Proactiveness Phones Phood

Fair treatment Self- management Discussion

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Fun and fruitful

FAQs

We start both Measure for Measure (P1) and Woman in Mind (P3) in Term 2. Start reading! Who is your tutor?! This term, we’ll swim in the basics

• f analysing unseen poetry :)

Your turn.

nouns adjectives adverbs verbs

names things actions feelings being places qualities attributes effect

• n others

manner frequency intensity

These Fruit Fruit Those

Imagery

Figurative language

metaphors similes personification

mental picture

a n i m a g e i s a e v o k e d b y a w o r d o r s e t o f w o r d s

typically a concrete noun, a tangible object

t h a t r e p r e s e n t s a n o t h e r o b j e c t o r i d e a

a m e t a p h o r i s a n

image

Strange Fruit

this slide has close to nothing to do with the actual poem

As We Read

Highlight the images (adjective+noun, noun, noun phrase) Underline the accompanying verbs, if any

e.g. ‘apple of my eye’

Note down the ideas that come to mind at first!

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, 
 Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, 
 Black bodies 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 magnolias, sweet and fresh, 
 Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.
 
 Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, 
 For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, 
 For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, 
 Here is a strange and bitter crop.

Activity

Gather in groups of four Discuss what you think the poem is really about Agree on the method that supports this one idea: 


label the ‘method’, select a group of images, decide on their effects

Start thinking about the purpose if time allows

Southern trees bear a strange fruit, 
 Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, 
 Black bodies 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 magnolias, sweet and fresh, 
 Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, 
 For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, 
 For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, 
 Here is a strange and bitter crop.

imagery

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gustatory

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auditory kinaesthetic

t h e f i v e s e n s e s o f

visual

imagery

b y s u b j e c t m a t t e r

nature corporeal

(i.e. body parts, blood)

flora

natural elements

b y i t s e f f e c t s

gruesome destruction beautiful tranquil violent

imagery

horrifying

Effects

What is your reaction to these images?

What qualities come to mind, in general? And in the context of slavery and racism?

Warning Warning Warning Warning

Real Imagery Ahead

Context

Purpose

Based on the internal effects (e.g. gruesome)

• r the effects on the reader (e.g. disturbing),

Consider what the poem is trying to say or ‘do’ about the practice of lynching, or racial terror in the American South Just why does the poem adopt the method you have identified and its likely effects?

Write!

Write a paragraph with the W-H-Y structure

(see Multiverse p12 and p132, or your lecture notes!)

Submit it during the first tutorial next week