Heaney uses essays & examples

Blackberry Choosing, Seamus Heaney It is usually said that the blacker the berry is, the sweeter its juice will be. This sort of is evident in Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry-Picking. ” Throughout the poem, Heaney uses the symbolism in the ripening and rotting of blackberries to represent youth and death respectively. Heaney usually takes the apparently […]

‘The Forge’ is a sonnet using a clear split into an octave (the first 8 lines) and a sestet (the last six lines). While the octave, apart from the initial mention of the the narrator, focuses solely on the inanimate objects and occurrences inside and outside the forge, the sestet explains the blacksmith himself, and […]