Compare And Contrast: "Strange Fruit" And "Telephone Conservation": Theme Of Racial Prejudice

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which hangs like a fruit. This image makes it a
metaphor to give the whole poem an effect.
The authors intention is to make people understand exactly what is
going on. He also tries to make us feel guilty as we are the murderers
because we are white.
The poem 'Telephone conversation' is staged by a black man who is
looking for a flat but ends up phoning to a landlady who is racist but
tries to be polite in finding out whether he is he is a dark or light one.
When he first speaks to her he feels awkward as he feels he has to
confess that he is African. Also I think he feels as though he has been in
the same position before somewhere else and he knows what is expected from
people like the landlady he is speaking to.
When he tells her that he is African she becomes speechless and
wants to know if he is light or dark brown. She puts her words in a more
polite way of asking but they are not to the point of what they could be
which makes it more harder ...

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