Blackberry Eating

The poem Blackberry Eating by Galway Kinnell is a short but effective example of how the exercise of the elements of poetry keep evoke emotional reaction and the corresponding emotional experience in people. The poem st subterfuges out with a matter-of-factly account or story weighty of a slowly September trip or errand to pick up fat, overripe, icy, cutting faintberries to ear blackberries for breakfast. While the first three lines flat expresses, herein, the author still makes use of stressed envisionry.The color black, an evident redundancy, is used to precede blackberry to produce or connote the image of the darkness or deepness of the fruit color, on top of the some other qualities of fatness or big size and possible coldness and delectable stage of ripeness. The stalks very prickly, a penalty they shed light on for knowing the black art of blackberry-making These abutting two and a half lines jumps into or introduces the aim of figurative language. What initially seems a either an implied mystery or a misguided use of the pronoun they in referring to that entity knowledgeable on the black art is in fact metaphorical language.The prickly stalks obviously are not persons who practice the supposedly dark or secret art of blackberry-making. What the penalty element in the metaphor perhaps suggests is that the practiti wizr of the art earns a disadvantage, or a price to pay, when he or she holds the stalks to pick up the blackberries. These next words prompt the reader to think what the author is difficult to tell and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost impulsive to my tongue. But the next line provides the unequivocal clue as words sometimes do. . Herein, it is revealed that the berries are compared to words, implying that blackberry-making is likened to making a fashion or something with words. At this point, the poem becomes clear, as metaphor is clearly replaced with the fiction tool of th e conjunction as. What makes this apparently simple, down-to-earth poem particularly appealing to read and listen to is the equally effective use of lead devices. A sort of metaphorical onomatopoeia is made use of in the next linesCertain peculiar words like strengths or quailed, many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language. As one reads or listens to these words of simile between cr eat prose and poetry or oration, it is as if one can almost hear the process of chewing and eating blackberries. In Blackberry Eating, rhythm, consonance or the repeated consonant sounds anyplace and alliteration or repeated initial consonants are obviously face up, what with the octuple use of black by itself or as prefix black blackberries, blackberries, blackberry-making.S is also alliterated several times with the words strengths, squeeze, splurge, silent, startled and the present and past forms of squinch. I lo ve to go out in modern September among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries to eat blackberries for breakfast, the stalks very prickly, a penalty they earn for knowing the black art of blackberry-making. As later revealed, the tenor in this part of poem, or what Galway Kinnell means, is the process involved in poetry composition.The authors use of the brambles and bramble fruit plant parts and the act of preparing and eating them suggest the conception or the composition of poetry. The words or lines actually used to that effect, technically called vehicle, constitute the metaphor or analogy. That the subject needs to go out (of his abode) to be able to procure the raw blackberry refers to the what the poet has to do in order to carry out the preliminary phase of constitution his poem. As the time period of late September is repeated at the end of the poem, the significance of this authors choice of the month becomes evident.The line of blackberry-eating in late September m akes another use of sound device the ber is repeated to seduce a rhythmic finale to the poem. A fusion of the style devices of genuine and figurative language and sound devices, Kinnells Blackberry Eating is an excellent segment of poetic genius. As Kinnell brings to the reader the pleasure, along with the efforts, of preparing and eating blackberries, the poem communicates how writings is akin to it. The total product is poetically narrative, metaphorically educational and a pleasure to read and hear.