"Blackberry-picking" by Seamus Heaney
Blackberry-picking is a poem by Seamus Heaney, in which he describes an incident from his childhood. The poem appeals to the five senses and uses various poetic techniques to paint a memorable picture in our minds.
Heaney describes blackberry-picking as a child with his family. He vividly describes the blackberries and how they tasted, then he describes how he went out picking then and what the blackberries looked like, he then describe what they did to the berries after picking and how disappointed he was when they did not keep and went rotten.
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