Blackberry picking
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- Created on: 08-05-16 09:36
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- Blackberry picking
- Meaning
- Short - lived youth and happiness
- Language
- "purple"
- Rich - expensive colour - valuable
- "Glossy"
- Attractive
- Turns to "glutting"
- Different uses of guttural sounds : soft-->disgust
- "sweet"
- Sibilant sound juicy--> bitter
- Turns to "stinking"
- "summer's blood"
- Religion, holy
- "Trekked"
- Adventure
- Exaggerates their worth
- Adventure
- "It wasn't fair"
- Free indirect discourse
- Childlike
- Free indirect discourse
- "Rat - grey fungus"
- Repulsive
- "purple"
- Structure
- More enjambment in 1st stanza
- excitement
- Turn to short sentences and end-stopped lines
- Bitter - refusal to believe it went so wrong
- Change in viewpoint after "But"
- Idealistic view of child changed to realistic adult
- Loss of description
- Idealistic view of child changed to realistic adult
- "I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not."
- Balanced sentence
- Bathos
- Builds hope
- Disappointed
- Builds hope
- Bathos
- Balanced sentence
- More enjambment in 1st stanza
- Synaesthesia
- Touch
- "pricks"
- Plosive sound implies pain - contempt
- "Hard as a knot"
- "palms sticky as Bluebeard's"
- Murdered his wife
- Familiar feeling of sticky juice
- Reader can relate
- "pricks"
- Taste
- "sweet"
- "Like thickened wine"
- Familiar
- "Sour"
- "sweet"
- Sounds
- "tinkling"
- "scratched"
- Sibilant sounds in plural words
- eg "cans, pea-tins"
- Hear juice being sucked out
- "picked"
- plosive
- Touch
- Meaning
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