Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath both approach death and ageing in their poems. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about blackberry picking.

... Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath both approach death and ageing in their poems. Seamus Heaney wrote a poem about blackberry picking. It has a meaning to it. It explains in his words how things age and die. I shall refer another Seamus Heaney poem and two of Sylvia Plath's poems to "Blackberry Picking." Seamus Heaney's poem "Blackberry Picking" is about a child's point of view of how everything ages. We know it is a child's point of few by parts of the poem "our palms sticky as Bluebeard's". With these five words it can be noticed that the poem is situated in the 1920's, as Bluebeard was a child's fictional character from pirate stories. Also, it being a pirate character, it can be said that it is allegedly a boy's point of view. Seamus Heaney's poem "Blackberry Picking" has many words in which he uses to describe the berries. Some

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