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Explore the ways Heaney uses nature in the two peoms 'Blackberry Picking'and 'Death Of A Naturalist'.
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Explore the ways Heaney uses nature in the the two peoms 'Blackberry Picking' and 'Death Of A Naturalist' Heaney sets the poem 'Blackberry Picking' in the countryside. You can tell this by the title of the peom and he also mentions 'hayfields, cornfields and potao-drills' in the first verse. Heaney uses a lot of alliteration in this poem. For example in the first verse he says 'big dark blobs burned'. There is a repetition of the b'b sound. This also makes the look of the berries more powerful. The reader gets a strong impression of their shape and colour. also he repeats the 'f' sound in the line 'The fruit fermented' which is in the second verse. This may give the effect, to the reader, of something slow. The word fermenting is a slow process. The imagery Heaney uses is concentrated in the first verse. For example, he says 'a glossy purple clot'...
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