Pros And Cons Of Blackberry

After picking the berries, there hopes were really high “hoarded”, meaning to store with excitement, they had their hopes up, but suddenly, after they filled the bath with blackberries, they found their treasure to be infested with “rat gray fungus”, which put their hopes back down again.

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

The third line states the speaker's purpose. He is going out "to eat the blackberries for breakfast." This line shows that the speaker not only has an attraction to the berries aesthetic qualities but also craves them to satiate his appetite. The speaker's appetite for the berries is later paralleled to his appetite for words. In the next line, the speaker describes the stalks of the blackberry bushes as "very prickly." This is the first negative image used in association with the blackberries. All the previous images have been positive characteristics of blackberries- fat, overripe, icy, and black. Perhaps, this negative image of the prickly stalks is being used to show that along with pleasure invariably comes pain in the natural world. This same idea used in the context of the words suggests the two-fold potential of words to both benefit and harm. In the next line, the prickly stalks are attributed as a penalty that "they [blackberry bushes] earn for knowing the black art." This imagery of the flowering of the bushes being a black art lends a magical, bewitching quality to the blackberries, an idea that there is something wickedly tempting about the berries. In connecting this idea to the "word" metaphor, it shows that the ability to tempt and persuade with words can also be a form of black art. In the next line, the speaker talks about standing among the blackberries and lifting the stalks to his mouth where "the

When hiking out to gather them, Heaney describes how the “briars scratched” (10) their wet boots. In this line, the reader’s mind is brought to a wooded area that seems friendly and hospitable except for the clawing briars and bleaching water. It is unmistakable how tiring the work can be, but the poet never mentions his exhaustion. While it takes a great deal of effort to pick berries, they still seem to be fragile to the point that they are annually torn down by the claws of greed. Also, the poet explains how their “hands were peppered/ with thorn pricks (15-16), as the repeated “p” sound places a dimension of anger and pent-up rage to the poem’s tone. The reader up to be pained by the ruined berries, turned into a fleeting memory from their former grace as they become largely forgotten and wasted if they are not eaten immediately. Similarly, the poet points out that unsuppressed desire can lead to this type of selfishness, and can prove to be dangerous if permitted for a long

He also describe the blackberries shape in the lines “many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps”, which is describe why Kinnell love blackberries.

Though the poem focuses heavily on the speaker’s attempts to satisfy his desire, no greater purpose appears to lie at the end of his quest. The “plate of eyes” that “burned” suggests that the speaker feels like he’s being watched, as if someone is standing and judging him for his thirst. The word “burned” implies that the feeling of being observed left a painful impression on him. The pickers leave the field with “hands peppered with thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s” (16). The choice of a comparison to Bluebeard, the violent murderer from a fairytale, suggests that the speakers links his desire with a violent, destructive act, further illustrating the way lust and desire is tangled up with guilt. Those who desire as the pickers do are haunted and tormented by the fruitlessness of their efforts. Furthermore, the poem is structured such that, for the most part, the ends of the lines do not quite rhyme. The “almost rhymes” throughout the poem mirror the disappoint the speakers feels; lines that come close to rhyming are just short of satisfying to read, similar to how the pickers’ quest does not quite fulfill their desire. By interweaving pain and disappointment with the blackberry picking process, the author suggests that with excess greed and desire comes pain and suffering. The pickers know, at least subconsciously, that their trek through the fields has neither an end goal nor a

Ulbricht et al. find that the bark and root contains a glycoside that when metabolized by the body, increases cyanide levels which can result in a toxic build up and cyanide poisoning. The authors recommend if there is a toxic overdose, Ipecac should be used to stimulate emesis followed by gastric lavage. The study also warns if the berries, root and bark are not cooked properly, severe and uncontrollable GI distress (abdominal cramping, vomiting, diarrhea) occurs in addition to the risk of cyanide toxicity.

“Barre brown stems” is like her legs and arms, “leaf-bud” like describing her breast. Is like Janie is observing her own physical and sexual development. Notice she says, “From the leaf buds to her snowy virginity.” Thinking more in depth in Florida doesn’t snow, so Janie is describing her physical development. “It was like a flute son forgotten in another existence and remembered again. What? How? Why?” Janie continue asking question what about her? How does I even existed? Why was I here in this world? Janie is exploring herself with all sort of question that she does not

The vines begin at the bottom of the column in two main places. These two main vines then spiral upwards around the column in opposite directions. There are smaller chutes that stem off from the main vines and created rounded lines. On these smaller stems are leaves as well as berries. Judging by the leaves, the vine is likely a grape vine. There are about 70 leaves on the whole column and they are each intricately carved. Each leaf has a dentate margin and distinct sinus’ and lobes. The vast majority of leaves are being viewed from the front but there are two seemingly randomly placed leaves that are carved in profile. There are also about twenty-two berries. They are interspersed across the surface of the column within six sets. Four of the sets contain three berries, one set contains five berries, and the last set may either contain five or six berries (the quality of the carving obscures the true image). The last set of berries is also coupled with the image of a bird attempting to eat the berries. There is a second bird that is in better condition which is eating a berry from a set of

A Taste of Blackberries is written in the first person with a nameless narrator, for the purpose of this review he will be called the narrator. The narrator is friends with a boy name Jamie and this is the story of their friendship. They live across the street from each other and the summer seems endless while they are having fun. Jamie is a bright boy who loves to cause mischief. In the

Further into the hike I stumbled upon another plant species that caught my eye with its bright red bushels of berries. I noted the berries size to be about the same size as the top of my eraser, berries were also accompanied by multiple thin/long/serrated leaves that reach throughout the

‘Death of a Naturalist”. ‘Blackberry Picking’ contains symbolism of ripening and rotting of blackberry which could be Heaney’s way of suggesting youth and death, “glossy purple clot” could be viewed as ‘youth’ as it suggests growth and seems almost seductive and “rat-grey fungus” suggests decay, which is what happens after a person dies and their body is corrupted by soil and consumed by foul creatures. ‘Blackberry Picking’ also consists of similes “our palms as sticky as Bluebeard’s” which could be a euphemism for the guilt of greediness for the berries, the speaker’s hands are sticky like Bluebeard'. In the case of the poem, the boys' hands are sticky with the juice of the berries, whereas Bluebeard's hands could presumably be sticky with the blood of his many wives. Growing up is shown as the feelings of guilt rises in the reader, children are unlikely to feel guilt because they do not have the advanced power of reasoning like adults do, so the realisation of the greed in the reader is significant as it shows signs of maturity. There are also elements of sexual awakening “lust for picking” shows connection with the sensual desires, this suggests puberty and discovery of reproduction, elements of longing,

The candle had burnt down a little over the length of her thumbnail by the time she was finally disturbed. After some searching, Seoyeon had managed to find a couple of books written in her own language. One she suspected Jongdae would have loved, since it was about methods of teaching, and the other she wasn’t quite sure what to make of since half of it was crazy, but the pictures in it were so lifelike it was almost as though the artist had managed to trap what he was drawing inside the pages, and so she spent more time looking over them than actually reading the text. It was a huge tome, too — at least the first third of it was dedicated to plants, and Seoyeon had consequently assumed it to be authoritative until she’d got into the

Heaney uses the ‘smell of rot’ which is disgusting sensory image used to contrast the decay with the beauty of the fresh blackberries. The shortness of the word ‘rot’ compounds the definite nature of decay, this shows there is no way these blackberries can be saved.

Heaney uses the ‘smell of rot’ which is disgusting sensory image used to contrast the decay with the beauty of the fresh blackberries. The shortness of the word ‘rot’ compounds the definite nature of decay, this shows there is no way these blackberries can be saved.