"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 …showed first 75 words of 807 total…

…showed last 75 words of 807 total…vivid image of his childhood experience of blackberry picking as a child, this makes the poem. Overall I really liked the poem, I found it to be a feast to the sences and created a lot of images in my head helping me to imagine the experience and what it must off felt like at the end of the poem when the berries rot. Blackberry-picking is a very good poem that I really enjoyed reading.