![]() ![]() I think the word “lust” and “hunger” are some significant nouns that strongly emphasise on their cravings. “Leaving stains upon the tongue”, vivid imagery is used to show the “lust for picking” after having a taste of the rich, juicy berries, and so they use all the containers to collect the berries. The idea of the craving continues after the sentence, the next two lines say, “Leaving stains upon the tongue, and lust for picking” and “Then red ones inked up and that hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots”. I think the word “wine” illustrates the richness of the juice of blackberry and also how intensely desirable it is like wine. “Like thickened wine summer’s blood was in it”, in this sentence Heaney compared the ripen blackberry to “thickened wine” and “summer’s blood”. Heaney uses a variety of similes to portray the excitement he has for blackberry picking. In “Blackberry Picking” by Seamus Heaney, the poet describes a childhood memory during the summer in Ireland. ![]()
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