Blackberry-Picking By Heaney

"Blackberry picking" The poem starts off with the sense of a summer day where rain would fall, and the sun would appear. Giving an imagery perspective from like three where is said "a glossy purple cloth" This line give you an idea of how bright and juicy this berry must be given that it is a metaphor to a blood clot meaning it is ripe and ready to be picked. Also, the other berries are not as ripe as this particular one, the one is hard and cannot eat or picked. "You ate the first one, and its flesh was sweet" This line is also a metaphor for a human, they contain blood and their scent are sometimes sweet and soft that make you want to bite into their flesh. Heaney compares the barriers to thick wine to a summer day. When you think about wine, it relates to a religious
This line also relates to sex because he uses the word lust, which means a strong desire. The berry that he has begun to eat gave him a strong crave to want more. In lines ten he explains how they were going off the beaten path for the berries, even hunting around thorn bushes. The wet grass is from the rain, and you can see that right after the rain they decided to go berry picking because they could not wait any longer. Within lines fifteen to sixteen Heaney's describing the berries as how a body structure is, the ripe ones on top like a plate of staring eyeballs. He refers to Bluebeard which is a British fairy tale of a freaky guy who has blue beard who killed his wife, and he compares himself to the blue beard man as berry killers relating the blackberry as if they were human. In addition to the last couple line, he described the berries turning to mold but throughout the poem he used all five sense as he would look for the rips purple berries, but every year the berries would spoil, and we would get upset again wishing next year it would not be the same