the use of the poetic turn shows how the narrator is different at the beginning and at the end. The main message of this poem was everything good in life eventually ends. This is seen through the devices of personification, allusion, and a poetic turn. This poem reminds me of the blackberries that I have at home, that eventually spoil because no eats them,
The poem Blackberry picking effectively explores the dissatisfaction often involved in gaining an object of desire, in particular the berries represent a desire to keep what’s in good in life – youth. Heaney makes extensive use of poetic devices, examples of alliteration include “peppered…pricks…palms”, “fruit fermented…flesh”. The vocabulary is rich, “like thickened wine”, creating an effect that makes the poem when read rather like eating blackberries. The words are densely packed, which makes it intentionally too rich. This effect is furthered through its meter, iambic pentameter.
Picture a world of much pain and suffering;Were only death can bring happiness, Were after life is the only possible escape for a peasent's social class. Place This image clearly in your mind, now imagine that this afterlife is guaranteed .A so called war; will redeem you in gods eyes for any misconsumptions he may have of you and without no doubt allow you access into his kingdom in heaven. On your crusade to recapture the holy land. You see new things but nothing will amaze you more then what your eyes come across at the end of your journey. Your used to a wretched life style, tasteless food, hard labor from sun up to sun down.
The speaker uses the illusion of Bluebeard to represent that the speaker took every blackberry in sight. The second stanza presents a much more depressed mood to the poem. The blackberries begin to go bad and the magic of the season begins to fade. In the first line of the second stanza, “We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre”, the word hoarded shows the first attempt to hold on to what he knows will not stay (17). The speaker comes to fact that the berries’ freshness does not last forever.
Many people may look at it as too much work and lost time. When, in reality, it’s an opportunity to learn, and experience the joy of giving. For me, the gift of giving is about the best feeling there is. It makes me feel like I’m doing something worthwhile on this earth. Throughout my visit, I witnessed disturbing events.
The reason I chose Lychee as the title is because if anyone knows lychee, it’s a fruit which is very pointy and rough on the outside, yet soft and sweet on the inside, but there is a seed on the inside that people just throw away or don’t eat. Gretel portrays cowboys as having the same features. Gretel explains that a cowboy is rough and rigorous on the outside, but on the inside, has emotional barriers which aren’t taken down until their shift is over. Just like Gretel states in her essay, the cowboy is the one raising life and setting death. Cowboys don’t get the same training as doctor’s to handle the death of a patient ,therefore, have to personally learn to set up emotional barriers for themselves; however, like most barriers, they don’t stay up
The group of people who are collecting the blackberries are almost in a frenzied rush; as if they didn’t care if they got scratched and wet, they just wanted the blackberries. The blackberries, once collected, are ‘big dark blobs’ in the tins, giving the impression they are thick and juicy, merging into each other. However, in the byre, the fruit ferments, contrasting drastically from the glorious picking of the fruit. The diction of the poem begins in an adult tone of voice however lapses into a more childish tone. This allows the reader to experience the poem from a child’s view.
We should live in the moment and make the most of the time we have. Life with all its possibilities and opportunities does not need some heinous act to end it – it merely ends. In his iambic pentameter with an end rhyme structure, Herrick subtlety cautions the world of our collective demise. His introduction of the most majestic of the forest trees, the oak, in all its strength and grandeur, is a symbolic reference to a powerful and prestigious people of this world – that they may rise to glory and greatness, but in the end, they will die. This dark reality leaves the reader with a motivation to make the most of life as we encounter it.
Although it states the “Our hands were peppered with thorn pricks”, they continued to pick the blackberries and “peppered” shows that they are willing to suffer in order to satisfy “that Hunger”. “Our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s”, their palms are stained with the black berry juice, as "Bluebeard's" were stained with blood. We see that
Our narrator’s youth is confirmed again when he claims that he “always felt like crying [because] It wasn't fair” (line 22) the berries where rotting. Social standards suggest that a mature person has accepted that life is unfair and would just ignore something as trivial as this, while an immature child on the other hand might cry over it. That said, it is the very word “always” in line 22 that implies how the narrator is beginning to mature. Because the narrator knows that the berries will ‘always’ rot every year we can assume he has a basic idea of the cycle