Blackberry Picking Poem Analysis

Heaney continues to do this by glorifying the frogspawn, using alliteration “jam pots of the jellied specks”. This creates a soft and gentle rhythm for the reader, portraying Heaney’s fascination with nature a child.

From the beginning of the poem, the speaker tells of his naïve, consuming world of blackberries. Because the

In Natasha Trethewey’s poetry collection Native Guard, the reader is exposed to the story of Trethewey’s growing up in the southern United States and the tragedy which she encountered during her younger years, in addition to her experiences with prejudice and to issues surrounding prejudice within the society she is living in. Throughout this work, Trethewey often refers to graves and provides compelling imagery regarding the burial of the dead. Within Trethewey’s work, the recurring imagery surrounding graves evolves from the graves simply serving as a personal reminder of the past, to a statement on the collective memory of society and comments on how Trethewey is troubled with what society has forgotten as it signifies a willingness to overlook the dehumanization of a large group of people.

The poem “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker speaks to all college students who leave home to go to school. This poem speaks about the insecurities kids face when they start to interact with the world. As children we learn first from our parents and close family and friends. We learn how to model our behavior from learning form those that surround us. Sometimes when we emulate our close relatives we contract the good along with the bad. So as the granddaughter comes back home to her grandmother who is the pillar of support that gives her warmth and comfort. She Is yearning to speak all about her travels and people she has met. Yet as she goes of to college for the first time interacting with vastly different

Humanity is but a facet of the sublime macrocosm that is the world’s landscapes. In the relationship between man and landscape, nature is perpetually authoritarian. In her free-verse poems, The Hawthorn Hedge, (1945) and Flame-Tree in a Quarry (1949), Judith Wright illustrates the how refusal to engage with this environment is detrimental to one’s sense of self, and the relentless endurance of the Australian landscape. This overwhelming force of nature is mirrored in JMW Turner’s Romantic artwork, Fishermen at Sea (1796). Both Wright and Turner utilise their respective texts to allegorise the unequal relationship between people and the unforgiving landscape.

Secondly, the repetition depicts figuratively the accumulation and spreading of the problem. It is not a problem that is isolated to one kind of fruit, or one particular farming community, but a problem that is rapidly becoming widespread. The image of “the smell of rot filling the country” also reinforces this idea of an unstoppable spread of decay, infiltrating the whole country bit by bit.

The Dalai Lama once said, “I hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest” (BrainyQuotes.com). Hope is a subject that is heavily present in “Accident” by Todd Davis. Typically, spring is a symbol for hope. It often brings people brighter thoughts after cold, dark winters. Support can also affect how optimistic a person is. The purpose of a person’s life is a large source of hope. In the poem, the narrator is thinking about a recent event in which a man killed himself. The son of the suicidal man and the child of the narrator were friends, and the narrator is contemplating why the man shot himself. The narrator does not understand why the man could not find hope. In “Accident”, Todd Davis proposes that through seasonal metaphors, family support, and a person’s purpose, hope can always be found.

fair”, you can tell this is the voice of a child. There is also a

I chose the poem Oranges by Gary Soto because it seemed simple but at the same time seemed profound. When I first read this poem it was easy to follow but I realized there was a deeper meaning behind the simplicity and I was intrigued. To find this poem, I searched on the internet for poems that were recommended for students in grade 11. I was looking for a poem that was somewhat long so I could write quite a bit about it. I was also looking for a poem that did not contain any allusions or ornate language. While I was reading through my choices, I briefly analyzed them, after this process I chose the one that I understood the most. The word ‘oranges” caught my eye, because it is rare to see a poem with such a simple name, but I felt that

In the music video/song “Strange Fruit”, the phrase strange fruit doesn’t really refer to a fruit that is strange. It actually refers to people being lynched and hanging from trees. More specifically, the term strange fruit applies to the lynching of African Americans. This song was performed by Billie Holiday in 1939 at the Cafe Society in New York. The music video was actually a recorded performance from 1959. The song was written and performed because the purpose of was to raise awareness and fight against African American lynching because during that time, African Americans were being discriminated and abused. Billie Holiday in the music video/song “Strange Fruit” displays logos through context and imagery, pathos through her sorrowful tone and facial expressions, and lastly, ethos because she won many awards during her career in singing, and Strange Fruit is one of them.

Written in 1980, Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating is a poem which creates a strong metaphoric relationship between the tangible objects of blackberries, and the intangible objects of words. The speaker of the poem feels a strong attraction to the sensory characteristics (the touch, taste, and look) of blackberries. The attraction he feels at the beginning of the poem exclusively for blackberries is paralleled in the end by his appetite and attraction to words. The rush the speaker gets out of blackberry eating is paralleled to the enjoyment he finds in thinking about certain words; words which call up the same sensory images the blackberries embody.

In “Monkey Hill,” Stan Rice writes about the speaker of the poem who sits at a zoo with his friend observing the spider monkey exhibit. The two stay the whole day to observe these monkeys. The speaker becomes envious of these monkeys and their ability to be confident with exactly where they are and with who they are. Rice argues that our minds imprison us when we are worried about judgment from others. The monkeys in the exhibit felt free and at ease while the two observers were trapped in worrisome about the outside world in fear of how others would perceive them.

Even when you don’t have money you don't have money you can still show love with sacrifice and kindness. Gary Soto, writer of "Oranges" is known for a body of work that deals with the realities of living in a Mexican-American community. Many Mexican-American Societies are not very wealthy and shows why giving up an orange would such a sacrifice in a Mexican-American society. In "Oranges", the narrator tells us about him walking to a store with a girl to buy some candy. He asked the girl "what do you want?" At the time they were both twelve years old. It’s a cold, gloomy day for a walk but they don’t seem to mind. The narrator has a nickel and two oranges in his coat pocket he plans to share with the girl. They walk to the drug store to buy some candy. The narrator tells the girl she can get whatever she wanted. Things take a turn and the girl chooses a chocolate bar that cost a dime. He ends up making a

The poem “Blackberries” is a deep and well thought out story of a man’s time in slavery. As you read the poem, there are obvious meanings the reader will pick up on right away, while there are also much deeper meaning to many of his words. The title suggests that blackberries play a significant role in the deeper meaning of the poem. When analyzing the text, it is easy to see the surface meaning saying that the author is simply picking the blackberries from the field. After a deeper evaluation, it is clear that he is referencing the hardships of his time as a slave. In the word blackberry, the root black can be used to show that he views the times are harsh or dark. Black is often used to show either sadness or nervousness, which can both

Once the reader can passes up the surface meaning of the poem Blackberry-Picking, by Seamus Heaney, past the emotional switch from sheer joy to utter disappointment, past the childhood memories, the underlying meaning can be quite disturbing. Hidden deep within the happy-go-lucky rifts of childhood is a disturbing tale of greed and murder. Seamus Heaney, through clever diction, ghastly imagery, misguided metaphors and abruptly changing forms, ingeniously tells the tale that is understood and rarely spoken aloud.