![]() ![]() Heaney and Clarke both create strong feelings in their poems. Heaney writes about his childhood experiences picking berries in “late august”. “Blackberry Picking” uses nature as a basis for the narrative. They explore love and regret through the description of childhood and nature Blackberry Picking through the explicit meaning of picking blackberries but them decomposing, and Stealing Peas through the explicit meaning of children stealing peas from pea rows in a field in the day, but later on with a girl asking a boy a question and her being given a disappointing and seemingly unexpected answer.īoth Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney and Stealing Peas by Gillian Clarke are similar in subject they both are poems about sad or unfortunate childhood events that have perhaps lingered in both of the poets’ memories. ![]() Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney and Stealing Peas by Gillian Clarke both approach passion and disappointment in life by describing childhood experience. ![]()
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