Eating Blackberries
In this poem he talk about the beauty of eating blackberries and the art of picking them. He expresses the feeling of eating them and the prickly stalks he feels just when hes about to enjoy them. Galway nonchalantly compares blackberries as the aesthetics of words and language.
He exulting in the beauty of language and words. Galway is attracted to the richness and indulges in words which are like blackberries. He uses simile like picking a blackberry from a tree like picking words off the tree of knowledge. "fall almost unbidden to my tongue / as words sometimes do..."
Galway personify's the blackberry like words but realistically blackberries do not offer knowledge but the nutrients and the taste from it are very similar and enriching to the taste buds. But the taste buds is your mind and brain.
I think this poem is very simple and sweet. He shows the reader his style of writing and getting his message through without complication or uneasiness. I like the way he is able to compare food to knowledge of words. Although both realistically different still the conclusion and feeling is often very similar and can be related to.
Yes--words, of course, offer us a different sort of "nutrition," right? And certainly, imagery, word sounds, etc.--the elments of poetry--are certainly food for your imagination--that most sensual aspect of mind...so in language, perhaps, we do nature one better, since we get both intellectual and sensual stimulation...though of course we must eat to live, we may live to consume--the stuff of the imagination...
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