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Explore the ways Heaney and Plath present their feelings in "Blackberries" and "Blackberry-Picking" The two poems "Blackberrying" and "Blackberry-Picking" are similar in the sense of description of the blackberries. Both Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney present this fruit in a positive light, using thorough detail and both displaying their love for the blackberries with admiration. They are very similar in using strong and powerful language creating illusions and vivid images, almost making us feel as if we were experiencing this ourselves. Both of these poems start off describing Plath and Heaney's lust for the blackberries and how much satisfaction the fruit gives them, but then both writers display their feelings about how everything changes and how this temporary happiness doesn't last suggesting that life is not all pleasant. In the poem "Blackberrying", by Sylvia Plath, the language is extremely effective, portraying a major change in tone. The first stanza tells us...

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