Blackberry Picking vs. Ancient Photograph.

... Blackberry Picking vs. Ancient Photograph Mirdza Abele The poem "Blackberry picking" is mainly about four things, which are picking blackberries, family tradition, life and death and childhood experiences. Referring to blackberry picking, Heaney describes blackberry picking using such words and combination of phrases that just by reading the poem it makes the reader think and feel as though he/she is there, picking berries with the writer. In other words Heaney makes us live out the experience of picking blackberries. The poet compares blackberries to life cycle and death. He manages that by referring to our senses, which are smell, taste, touch, sight and sound. He uses our senses to make us live out the blackberry picking, as well. As an example of him using our senses to get to the point he wants us to get it: "...juice was stinking too." This is referring to our smell sense. Heaney,

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