6/20/2023 0 Comments Blackberries seamus heaney![]() ![]() Harwood uses passing time for her poem, she uses imagery like “flickering lights” to describe passing of time. While the first stanza Heaney uses sensuous imagery and a more positive tone to describe this type of stanza, he uses techniques like similes to explore taste and smell “”sweet like thickened wine” Heaney describes the blackberries before they became rotten. Heaney uses imagery and change of negative tone to describe how the black berries overtime became a “fur, a rat-grey fungus” to show the audience the change of mood and the sight that Heaney saw. Both poets use a negative tone in their poems and they use imagery and similes to describe and explore the passing of time. Both poets use symbolism to explore themes of loss of innocence, showing contrast between youth and growing up from being happy and young to being disappointed. Heaney and Harwood both focus on the idea and themes of youth going into adulthood, from an innocent child or a time in their youth where they perceived life with hope and high expectations until adulthood that shows its harsh realities and disappointment. ![]() ![]() Poems Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney and In the Park by Gwen Harwood explore themes of loss and innocence. ![]()
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