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Mind Map by hjeffrey.home6677, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by hjeffrey.home6677
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Blackberry Picking
- Context
- by Seamus
Heaney
- Irish poet
- Irish poet
- set in Ireland
- by Seamus
Heaney
- Themes
- loss of hope
- loss of childhood
innocence
- loss of hope
- Techniques
- Contrast
- poem is in 2
sections
- section 1
- positive
- word choice
- "sweet"
- "glossy"
- "sweet"
- imagery
- "like thickened wine"
- "like thickened wine"
- word choice
- positive
- section 2
- negative
- word choice
- "stinking"
- "fungus"
- "stinking"
- imagery
- "like a plate of eyes"
- "like a plate of eyes"
- word choice
- negative
- negative change
portrays loss of
hope/innocence
- section 1
- Sentence Structure
- "lovely canfuls
smelt of rot"
- contradictory
- oxymoron
- contradictory
- "sweet flesh
would turn sour"
- highlights the
change/development
of fruit
- desirable to disgusting
- delicious to horrid
- desirable to disgusting
- highlights the
change/development
of fruit
- "Each year I hoped they'd keep,
knew they would not."
- loss of hope
- outcome always
same: failure
- portrays difference between
hoping and knowing
- hope never fulfilled
- loss of childhood
imagination and
naivety
- hope never fulfilled
- sense of newfound
understanding and
reality
- dreams have been lost
- he is no longer a child full of
hope and innocence
- dreams have been lost
- loss of hope
- "lovely canfuls
smelt of rot"
- poem is in 2
sections
- Word Choice
- section 1
- "glossy purple clot"
- bright
- colourful
- shiny
- first taste
- "clot"
- filled with juice
- covered by thick skin
- connotes blood
- filled with juice
- bright
- "summer's blood"
- thick, dark juice
- rich
- personification
- thick, dark juice
- "flesh"
- personification
- personification
- children's desire for berries
- "lust"
- sensual nature
- burning passion
- addicted since first taste
- highlights children's need/desire
- longing
- yearning
- longing
- portrays loss of
innocence
- sensual nature
- "hunger"
- need berries
to survive
- only berries will
satisfy
- children have
become
wild/crazed like
animals
- addiction/craving
- cannot be denied
- cannot be denied
- need berries
to survive
- "lust"
- "glossy purple clot"
- section 2
- "stinking"
- opposite of sweet
- highlights contrast
- highlights contrast
- horrid
- putrid
- reeking
- opposite of sweet
- "glutting on our cache"
- their berry collection
- diseased
- flooded
- overwhelmed
- diseased
- overpowering berries
- filling up
- their berry collection
- "rat-grey fungus"
- rotten
- infested
- rotten
- children
- "hoarded the fresh berries"
- "hoarded"
- locked them away
for themselves
- stashed
- greedy
- more than necessary
- unable to let
go/give up
- locked them away
for themselves
- "hoarded"
- "hoarded the fresh berries"
- "stinking"
- section 1
- Imagery
- section 1
- "like thickened wine"
- tempting
- dark
- desirable
- "wine"
- addiction
- sweetness
- richness
- addiction
- hints at theme of loss
of innocence
- tempting
- "big dark
blobs burned"
- "burned"
- foreshadowing
- danger
- sin
- danger
- deep
colour
- reflection into
"glossy" skin
- foreshadowing
- "burned"
- "like thickened wine"
- section 2
- "like a plate of eyes"
- simile
- berries are
watching/judging them
- disgusting
- revolting
- simile
- hands "sticky as Bluebeard's"
- simile
- old French folktale
- murdered wives
- murdered wives
- murderous
- sinister
- blood on their hands
- simile
- "like a plate of eyes"
- section 1
- Contrast
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