Compare and contrast blackberry picking and death of a naturalist both by Seamus Heaney

... Compare and Contrast Blackberry Picking and Death of a Naturalist both by Seamus Heaney. The purpose of this assignment is to compare two poems Death of a Naturalist and Black Berry picking both by Seamus Heaney. I will look for similarities and differences between the two poems by looking at content, voice, structure, setting, theme, tone and imagery. The content of the two poems are both similar as each are about life cycles, fascination and disappointment in nature. The general idea of each poem is Seamus Heaney as a child going out into the countryside collecting samples of nature, either blackberries or frogspawn and storing or displaying his findings until they grow up or rot. In Blackberry Picking Heaney also writes about how year after year he picks and stores blackberries when in the back of his mind he knows that they won't last forever, or as long as he would

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