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"Blackberry Eating"

by Galway Kinnell

Structure

~No Rhyme

~One Stanza

~Fourteen Line

~Free Verse

~First and Last

line repeat

Author's Message

Blackberry Eating

By Galway Kinnell

Mood- Cheerful

Title- "Blackberry Eating"

Suggests- People eating Blackberries

Powerful Lines- Lines 9 & 10

Line 9-"As words sometimes do, certain peculiar words/

Line 10- like strengths and squinched"

Main Point- The man describes how he feels about the blackberries.

Paraphrase

Stanza 1~

It describes the feeling the author gets from picking Blackberries and described the feeling he got from eating them.

Challenging Words

Poetic Devices

Unbidden- Not bidden; not inviting

Imagery

~Lines 2, 4, 7, 12

Alliteration

~Lines 10, 12, 13

Metaphor

~Line 4

Examples-

~"fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries"

~"squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well"

~"Stalks very prickly, a penalty"

Peculiar- Strange

Splurge- to indulge oneself

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