HOW DOES HEANEY MAKE BLACKBERRY PICKING

GLOSSY PURPLE CLOT

• This creates a vivid image in your head
• It uses colour as a powerful technique
• Although this seems happy at first there is a horror theme as well
• A clot signifies an evil thing which causes horrible illness
• This is a powerful technique because there are two sides to this line

THE TINKLING BOTTOM

• This is onomatopoeia and is very important to this poem
• It creates a vivid imageof the jar filling up with beautiful fruit
• It uses sound effects as a way of describing what happened
• Tinkling suggests the way that the drops of the fell on to the jar
• This shows that he enjoyed it so much that he can remember the sounds of the day

DARK BLOBS BURNED

• The word burned suggests how they explode out of the fruit
• Blobs describe perfectly the form of one of these beautiful fruits
• But there is also a bad side to this line
• Burning can suggest that it will stop soon, that the fire will run out
• This links to the moral because it suggests that they won't last long

A PLATE OF EYES

• This is a powerful and striking quote
• This is an horrific image that is placed in your mind
• It gives you the sense of a horror film
• The complete opposite to what the poem is depicting
• This makes the poem vivid by forcing you to imagine this gruesome thing

PALMS STICKY AS BLUEBEARD'S

• This carries on the horror theme using touch as a technique
• This suggests hands covered in berry juice
• The juice is like blood stains on Heaney's palms
• Blood, like that on Blue Beard's hands when he killed his wives
• This is powerful because it creates a vivid image in your head

A RAT-GREY FUNGUS

• This is another example of colour being used as a technique
• Not only does ot use colour but it also uses touch and metaphors
• You can imagine the slimy fur of a rat keeping you from the fruit
• It turns a beautiful juicy fruit into a dirty and stinking rodent
• This is very emotive as it begins to tell the moral of the poem

THE JUICE WAS STINKING TOO

• This uses senses as a powerful technique
• It uses smell to make it vivid as you begin to understand the poem
• He uses the word stinking to portray his sadness
• It shows great emotion and helps you realise what he expreienced
• This is very important when youcome to think of the poem's moral

FELT LIKE CRYING. IT WASN'T FAIR

• This really brings home the feelings he had
• It makes you undertsand what it meant to him
• It uses the word crying to portray the emotion in the poem
• This suggest that he is learning about life and its hard realities
• This brings you to the moral, goodthings don't last forever

THE MESSAGE

• There is a constant change in emotion in tis poem
• At the beginning Heaney is on top of the world
• But towards the end the mood suddenly swings
• This poem is about a child beginning to realise how the world works
• The message is that the better things get, the worse they will end