what does the stanza "blood on the leaves and blood on the roots, black body swinging in the southern breeze " in the poem "strange fruit"

Kairi291

what does the stanza "blood on the leaves and blood on the roots, black body swinging in the southern breeze " in the poem "strange fruit"

Your sentence is missing a main verb.


It's a reference to lynching.

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/marion-indiana-lynching-1930/

CJ