The poet conveys not just a literal meaning of the picking of blackberries but a deeper understanding of the whole experience.
The author explains the seasonal change through the harvesting of blackberries. First describing the weather, to then explaining the produce of it, then ends by saying “I’d hope they’d keep, knew they would not,” the coming to an end of the blackberries, but the author’s experience has a deeper meaning.
He uses metaphor on the first stanza; it started out with lust and hopeful thought then to transitioning it to “I’d hope they keep, knew they would not,”at the last stanza, he’s describing the end of the blackberries, and so as the people. Throughout the poem he also uses symbolism to describe the rotting of the berries, also comparing it to people, he states “the bath was filled we found a fur,” it alleges to the aging of berries and people, he also describes in the last two lines, “That all the lovely cansuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they keep, knew they would not.” It is the satisfaction of people going through the cycle of life but also knowing that there will be “rot” at the end, which coincides with the metaphor of blackberries.
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He states, “clot” and “knot” and “summer’s blood was in it” and “lust for picking.” this emphasizes how people try to preserve things that they love, but also the desire to keep it forever but knowing it will come to an end.
The deeper meaning of this poem is through experience. The author looks back at his past to then using metaphor to describe what he had experienced throughout his youthful life in the rural area of berry picking. He’s recalling his memories to describe how he feels, although he vocalizes the youthful momentum, he enhances the cycle of life and knowing it will soon “rot” he desires that there will be another life, full of hopes, and full of harvest with new