Blackberry Eating (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Galway Kinnell
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Love or romance, Nature, Edible plants, Fruit, Natural foods, Berries, Autumn
The Poem
“Blackberry Eating” is a short poem in free verse, its fourteen lines (in one stanza) all parts of one compound-complex sentence. One-sentence poems are not uncommon for Galway Kinnell. The title plunges into the immediacy of the context of the poem by focusing on an action as subject. The poem is written in the first person. There is no indication that the speaker’s persona is someone other than the poet, so the poem fits into the classic tradition of lyric poetry wherein the poet directly informs the reader about a personal experience.
A subject that is...
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