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Blueberry Picking


            "Blackberry-Picking" by Seamus Heaney is a poem that shows the reader a sense.
             of feeling the speaker had of fun and sorrow over the blackberries. The author uses diction, imagery, and metaphor to enhance the speakers thoughts and feelings.
             The diction in the poem presents ideas of this setting Heaney had created. "Bluebeard" is a character in a fairy tale who murders his wife. The beginning of the poem starts off sweet and happy until the reader stumbles upon "Bluebeard", who happens to be a very cruel person. "Bluebeard" foreshadows the pain and sorrow of the.
             spoiled blackberries that comes near the end of the poem. Heaney uses elegant words such as briar, byre, and cache. Briar is a bush that has a thorny or prickly, woody stem. The blackberry and the wild rose are often briars. Brye is a barn. Cache is a hiding place for food. All these words seem to be rather formal.
             The imagery in the poem is rather intense. Heaney shows many aspects of color,.
             "a glassy purple clot," "red, green, hard as a knot." The reader has a visual sense of what.
             the blackberries looked and felt like. The author also refers to taste, "the sweet flesh would turn sour." The reader can relate to that feeling of tasting something sour. Heaney.
             also gives an image of the setting, "round hayfields, cornfields and potatoe drills.".
             Heaney uses many metaphors throughout this poem. One metaphor was "summer's blood" which referred to the juice of the berries. This is a gruesome metaphor.
             leading up to what happens to the beries at the end. The berries were killed by the pickers hands. The berries were given human characteristics that show pain, "on top big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes." Finally the pickers were referred to as a Bluebeard,.
             who killed his wife. The pickers killed their love, the berries.
             The theme of the poem was that one hurts the one a person loves. Sometimes in.
             a desperation to have something we take without giving much thought to what will happen in the future.


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