The use of personification helps give an image along with a clear connection. Another device used by Heaney is allusion. The allusion seen in the poem is “our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s”. The connection between this poem and Bluebeard is that the narrator of the poem feels guilty for taking all of the blackberries. One top of that, the blackberries got spoiled, where “sweet flesh would turn sour”, which is the change for worse.
This seemingly innocent childhood pastime is tainted by dark desire and lust for these blackberries. Heaney symbolizes these blackberries as the object of human desire, whatever it may be. The speaker talks about her excitement to pick these berries, describing the desire humans have for these objects of affection. The poem makes a gradual decline into lust, showing its ultimate control over the speaker and then ending with the berries being unsatisfying and inedible, leaving the speaker wanting more. Through diction, Heaney is successfully able to convey to the reader how far this desire goes.
April Kolbush Kolbush 1 Professor Robert P. Arthur English 112 29 October, 2010 A Reflection on “Blackberry Eating” by Galway Kinnell A smoothie of the poet’s appetite for words and the blackberries themselves are depicted in the poem “Blackberry Eating” by Galway Kinnell. The poet wallows in the beauty of language and indulgences. He is as attracted to the ripe, dark richness of the blackberries as he is to words. A unique language is developed in the poem as it progresses through the fourteen lines of imagery. You can see how the Kinnell likes to play with words because the use of alliteration.
The final theme that Rossetti expressed in this poem was sex and exotica from most and made as a mythical tale for children. Rossetti used the poem to teach children the power of sister love. To older audiences, they can see Laura eating the fruit like losing her
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.
Jacob Rosenbaum Mr. Dundon IB HL English 1 20/4/12 Word Count: 1300 The Form of The Sword: Humanity and Bad Apples There is a saying that one bad apple spoils the whole bunch. In the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, humanity is a bunch of apples, and any one person has potential to be that bad apple. In the collection of short stories titled Ficciones, Borges composes literature that bends the mind of the reader. He uses this distinct literary tactic to evoke profound thought about the world around him. A good example of using disorientation to express his ideology is the short story The Form of The Sword.
Hughes compares a deferred dream to “ a raisin in the sun” due to the fact it was once a healthy purple fruit and is now all shriveled and unattractive to view, he uses “in the sun” to emphasize how to the dreamer feels defeat and the raisin to show further effects. Dreams can be subject to ridicule or abuse in the face of blunt opinions and pride and the only option can be to give up. The next question he states was “or fester like a sore and then run?” he compares a delayed dream to an open seeping wound. Fester is a bitter term meaning to become infected or decompose. Hughes uses this term to relate how a deferred dream can have a growing painful effect on the persons mind and soul by eating away at them causing misery, And how the irritation of losing hope and motivation can be just as daunting as a physical sore.
The sight and taste of the blackberries is incredibly intense; Heaney uses strong, descriptive words to convey the berries as they would appear in nature. The first blackberry that ripens is ‘a glossy purple clot’, the blackberry sounds sticky and rich, leaving the narrator anticipated as he eagerly waits for more to ripen. The taste of the blackberries, ‘like thickened wine:’ is a strong, intense flavour, then ‘summer’s blood’ and ‘flesh’ give the impression that the blackberry is something else entirely. ‘Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boot.’ Gives the image of darkened shoes, sodden and covered in grass as they reached above the thorns, allowing the reader to clearly imagine the scene. 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 Worn Path” Written by Eudora Welty In the short story “The Worn Path” by Eudora Welty there are echoes of melancholy and longing for forbidden fruit represented by love and wealth. The story intertwines the fruits of labor, lust and love and warmly wraps the softness of perils roughly handled for all to see. Even the title itself, “The Worn Path” weaves this thread of colors foreshadowing bluffs beyond one’s control. Are the bluffs lies or truths? The worn path tells the reader to be cautious on the path chosen in life.
Passion: foreign territory; a comical but unavoidable affliction like mumps, that one hopes to undergo while still young, in one of its milder, less ruinous varieties, so as not to catch it more seriously later on. When the fictional novelist Elizabeth Costello, who suggests that Rayment is not alive at all but her own imaginary creation, arrived she is intrigued by the idea of an amputee with no future and a misguided love for a young nurse. Paul begins to adapt to his world, for better or worse, but also brings plenty of humiliations upon himself. He misreads many of his circumstances, Rayment's attempts to atone for his wasted life by claiming Marijana's heart, or, if he cannot have that, by at least