Plath and Heaney - In this essay I will be looking at 3 poems, by two very different authors.

... Charlotte Squires 11KBO 8th December 2002 Plath and Heaney In this essay I will be looking at 3 poems, by two very different authors. The first poem that I shall be studying is Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath. Plath was the ill-fated wife of the poet Ted Hughes, and committed suicide in 1963. A lot of her work has a dark side to it, and aside from poems, she also wrote an autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar. The Irish poet Seamus Heaney writes both the other poems that I shall be looking at, Blackberry Picking and An Advancement of Learning. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995, and many of his works feature themes of how trivial experiences can change our lives. In the first line of Blackberrying, we are immediately overcome with a feeling of loneliness and isolation. 'Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries.' This is a very negative

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