"Strange Fruit" Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
Beginning
A
“Here is the girl’s head like an exhumed gourd. /Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth.”
2
Q
Main
A
“Diodorus Siculus confessed.”
3
Q
Conclusion
A
“Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible/ Beheaded girl, outstaring axe/ And beatification, outstaring/ What had begun to feel like reverence.”
