At this point the speaker is pleased by the taste of the fruit and seems unbothered by the fact that it has permanently tainted him. In lines five to seven of the first stanza, it is said that the fruit is “sweet”, but the narrator then goes on to say that it left a “stain upon the tongue”. In stanza two, there is a hope that the fruit will not rot, but also a realization that there will always be decay. The poem is comprised of two stanzas the first stanza evokes a sense of ignorant bliss while the second stanza acts somewhat as a contrast to the first. The message is captured in Heaney’s feelings emitted in each stanza, the use of literary devices and on the metaphorical and literal levels of the poem. In Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Blackberry-Picking”, an interpretation of the poem could lead one to believe that the poem is elegy to the children who will grow up and be made rotten by the world over time. Seamus Heaney Poems An Analysis of Blackberry-Picking Anonymous College Join Now Log in Home Literature Essays Seamus Heaney Poems An Analysis of Blackberry-Picking
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