

This suggests the sound of falling berries in the metal containers.Ĭoming up next line’s tone totally changes and gets extremely rough, ‘similar to a plate of eyes’, this sounds exceptionally melancholy and grim, at that point it discloses to us the kids are not by any stretch of the imagination disturbed by getting injured just thing they care about is them strive after the berries. Heaney utilizes onomatopoeia in the 13th line of the first stanza, ‘tinkling bottoms’. The following line reveals to us how far the kids made a trip to pick the fruit, ’round hello fields, corn fields and potato drills’. Towards the center of the first stanza, the author demonstrates to us the picker’s genuine love for blackberry’s, they hauled out any accessible container to gather their fruit. Heaney utilized metaphor ‘summers blood’ to pass on the franticness of the sweet juice that prompted needing to eat more, ‘desire for picking’. The taste of the first berry that was eaten is contrasted with ‘thickened wine’. ““Blackberry Picking” (Poetic Techniques)”
