Multimedia poetry presentation

The last week we have been working with poetry. We were told to make a multimedia poetry presentation. Me and Tine chose "Strange Fruit". It is a song performed by Billie Holiday, but originally it started as a poem by Abel Meeropol. It is about racism. The hunting lyrics and melody made it impossible for white americans and politicans to continue to ignore the southern campaign of racist terror. The poem describes the contrast between peace and ungraciousness. The line: a strange fruit with blood on the root, gives us an unpleasant felling about the poem. It describes the terrible way black people got treated back in the 1930`s.

We chose this poem because we think it is about an interesting theme. It`s about a very important theme that have taken place in the American history. They call it the American holocaust, where black people got executed because they were different.

Working with poetry the way we did, is more interesting than just reading and analyse poems. We made a moviemaker presentation. The pictures we used are mostly from the 1930`s, the time when the American holocaust took place. The music we used is the song "strange fruit", performed by Billie Holiday.