Strange Fruit

- Seamus Heaney 

 

I chose this poem because i like the language and imagery in the poem. The images he describes refer to nature and fruit when he talks about the dead bodiless girl's facial features and hair, except the nature, fruits, and plants to describe her aren't very pretty which makes the poem even more gruesome.  These references include "prune skinned, prune stones for teeth" and "her broken nose dark as a turf clod." Seamus Heaney wrote this poem about a girl who was beheaded and the head found, and whoever found it thought it was beautiful. Majority of the lines have 10 beats which makes it an iambic pentameter.

M. J.