In the poem Blackberry Picking, the s pea plantker uses the experience of picking blackberries to direct how naïve and greedy children and all people can be; by using powerful imagery, an abundance of beginning rhyme, and rhyme.
        In the origin stanza, the verbaliser uses intense imagery: glossy, clot, knot, flesh, and thickened wineÂ(ll. 3,4,5,6); to bring in the reader in initially, and sharpen that this poem will enhance to be one full of detail and meaning. He hence shows that the poem is somewhat a childs experience by itemisation objects that a child would use to gather blackberries: milk cans, pea tins, and jam potsÂ(l. 9); using an allusion to a fairy tale, palms sticky as BluebeardsÂ(l. 16); and using language that a child would use to conjure to the image of the blackberries, Like a plate of eyesÂ(l. 15). These lines that show that the poem is about a childs experience will slump up for a deeper and more complicated meaning later on in the poem. The speaker goes into great detail in describing the musical mode in which the children greedily gather all of the blackberries they can find, scour picking the ones that are not yet ripe. Alliteration is employ in abundance in the first stanza: milk cans, pea tins, jam pots, bleached ¦ boots, and big dark blobs burnedÂ(ll. 9,10,14). This alliteration causes the reader to slow down and savor the poem, as the speaker savors the taste of the blackberries. The speaker states that their hands were peppered/ With thorn pricksÂ(l. 16), demonstrating how often discommode they went through to get the desired blackberries.
        Though the second stanza is much shorter, this is where the speaker pulls together everything he has spoken about and thoughtfully projects his attitude toward childish nature. He states that he and the other children stored the blackberries in a bathÂ(l. 18), but then found a fur. This statement is ironic, because the choice of the word bath would insinuate cleanliness, however, the blackberries shitty anyway. Another ironic choice of words is in l. 19 where he states that the fungus was filling their cache. The word cache is defined as being an area of storage used to preserve materials. In this case the blackberries are not preserved.
Line 22 states I always felt like crying. It wasnt fair. This line contributes to the childlike flavour of the poem in the way that children often cry about things that are not fair. The word fair in itself is undreamed diction. It can be used to submit that the situation was unsporting and their toil was for nothing; because the blackberries they desired to consume were consumed by the fungus as a result of time. It can also be used to say that the appearance of the blackberries was not a pleasing one. Finally, the speaker uses a heroic couplet to show the importance of the last dickens lines. In these last two lines he states how naive they were to hope they could keep the blackberries, even though they knew that every year the blackberries would spoil.
        The speaker in Blackberry-Picking shows how he feels that the act of picking blackberries is demonstrative of human, peculiarly childlike, greed and naivety.
Word Count: _530_
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