Blackberry-Picking Blackberry-Picking is a poem written by the great Seamus Heaney. The poem creates a contrast between Heaney’s perceptions of the world as a child to his new perception as he begins to grow up. Once again, similar to his other poems, he addresses the theme of childhood memories. The poem surrounds the constant use of different imageries and an irregular rhyme scheme to describe the feelings the writer endures while picking blackberries. The poem includes two stanzas that were filled with opposite contents, the first stanza being twice as long as the second.
Writing English: Poetry “Blackberry-Picking” by Seamus Heaney Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills We trekked and picked until the cans were full Until the tinkling bottom had been covered With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned Like a plate of eyes.
Ricky choses the hardest books imaginable. He believes in reading up on what others have to say about a difficult book, and then making up his own mind about it. He says that part of the reason he feels this way is because of his teacher, Mr. Buxton, who taught him Shakespeare in 10th grade. Ricky shares how Mr. Buxton met him one night to go over the text line by line, but he didn’t share the conclusion with Moody, he left that for him to figure out on his own. Reading Umberto Eco’s “Role of the Reader” in college, Ricky states that, “The reader completes the text, that the text is never finished until it meets this voracious and engaged reader.” Although there are critics who believe there is a right and a wrong way to ready books, Moody says, “I believe there is not now and never will be an authority who can tell me how to interpret, how to read, how to find the pearl of literary meaning in all cases.” Part 2.
How characteristic is “Hedge School” of Sheer’s Collection “Hedge School” is essentially about the discovery of the speaker’s identity through experiences within nature where key themes are place, identity, violence, exploration and heritage. The speaker, who speaks in first person, describes a journey from school in September, during which he stops to pick blackberries. Sheers explores different ideas about what to do with the blackberries that he has picked; should he eat them and taste their “variety” of flavours, or should he “hoard” them, or should he crush them in his hand. However the interesting part of this poem is how the speaker interprets his actions whilst interacting with nature. With little rhyme and irregular stanzas, “Hedge School” is uncharacteristic of Sheer’s collection both in terms positioning within the collection and in its own structure.
Speaker Credibility Statement: I have always made this appetizer, and people seem to enjoy it. Central Idea: Making strawberry dip with strawberries is mess, but is a quick and easy appetizer to put together. Preview of Main Points: I am going to show
Bailey Jr often stole pickles from the store and seemed to get away with everything because everyone liked him so much. A quote from chapter 4 explains what was going on. “When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin. His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. And yet he loved me” (4.9).
Her use of sensory details is impeccable. The line “think of your hands, fingertips on the soft hair” not only makes me think about touching someone’s hair but makes me feel my smooth fingers brushing through soft silky hair. She uses a great simile when comparing the men’s eyes to the night sky. She shows her use for metaphors when comparing her mother to a white dove. My favorite would have to be the simile just because I can clearly picture in my mind that the eyes of this man can look like the dark black night sky.
“Blackberries” takes place on fields in Africa with a boy picking blackberries; while “Singapore” concentrates on an incident inside of a women’s bathroom at a Singaporean airport. The speaker of “Blackberries” is that of a working boy who is selling blackberries on the side of the road in an upper class village. Whereas in “Singapore” the main focus are women, an upper class and a lower class woman. The diverse locations give the back bone to how both jobs are portrayed by the upper class. Another disparity is the pride in the lower class work.
His continuous irony throughout “A Modest Proposal” allows him to indirectly present his proposition, which is mostly confusing until the reader becomes educated with his style of writing. By choosing to use irony so often in his essay, Swift is able to illustrate to his audience just how extreme Ireland’s poverty conditions have gotten. With his use of sarcasm, Swift creates the impression that he is truly sincere and sympathetic towards the poor families who are constantly begging, but behind his satirical intentions he is actually meaning the opposite. Frequently in his essay, he portrayed irony when describing his “modest” proposal, that the carcass of one year olds would be profitable. Swift emphasizes his proposal’s advantage of preventing abortions, then clearly conveys irony when he contradicts this benefit three paragraphs later by reassuring his audience that he has been informed a “well-nursed” child “…is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled…”(Swift 1026).
Since the prison is a place of darkness and sin, the beauty of a wild rose bush growing in such an unexpected place symbolizes God's grace. By starting off with a prison door and beautiful rosebush, Hawthorne is letting us know that the issues punishment versus forgiveness and judgment versus grace are going to be super important. Like I said earlier even though Hester went through many hardships she was able to overcome and bloom just like a rosebush would. The Scarlet Letter is a dark book at the beginning because the setting of the prison makes me think of sadness. When the prison is being described Hawthorne names everything that makes it such a sad place.