The two poems that I am going to compare are 'Strange Fruit' and 'Telephone conversation' which both feature racial prejudice. The first of the two poems that I will study is 'Strange Fruit'. This is a very simple and meaningful poem. The author of this poem is writing about what was happening to the black people of the southern states of America. It shows exactly what happens to them when captured which brings in some …showed first 75 words of 688 total…

…showed last 75 words of 688 total…'Telephone conversation' is just like a play as 'Strange Fruit' is like a factual poem although it doesn't seem as real as 'Telephone conversation'. Both of the poems are written by men, 'Strange fruit' from about 1930 and 'Telephone conversation' from about 1960. Telephone conversation has a lot of unspoken thoughts from sentence to sentence and has a lot of humour also it is very clever. 'Strange fruit' is just a basic rhyming poem with strong language.