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blackberry weft by Seamus Heaney and Stealing Peas by Gillian Clarke some(prenominal) draw close passion and disappointment in demeanor by describing nestlingishness experience. They explore dear and regret by means of the description of nipperhood and nature berry picking through the explicit heart of picking blackberries unless them decomposing, and Stealing Peas through the explicit meaning of children stealing peas from pea rows in a field in the day, notwithstanding posterior on with a girl intercommunicate a boy a ch eitherenge and her being confinen a let ingest and seemingly unexpected answer.Both blackberry bush Picking by Seamus Heaney and Stealing Peas by Gillian Clarke be convertible in defer they dickens are poems ab issue sad or unfortunate childhood events that pass on by chance lingered in twain of the poets memories. Blackberry Picking characters nature as a basis for the register. Heaney writes about his childhood experiences pickin g berries in late august. Heaney and Clarke both cook sozzled feelings in their poems. In Blackberry Picking, Heaney conveys a moxie of lust and rapaciousness for the berries We hoarded the fresh berries, save that afterwards the berries fermented and grew sour The fruit fermented.Alternatively, Heaney could excessively be describing the excitement and joy plenty feel at the beginning of relationships and how it kindle deteriorate into something that is bitter and rotten. Heaney does this by describing how a fungus grows upon the berries that they had picked, making the sweet flesh of the berries telephone number sour. Similarly, in Stealing Peas, Gillian Clarke too workouts nature as a basis for the narrative when she writes about both teenage loers travel in pea rows, stealing the peas and feeding them.They crawl in the pea rows, slid the peas down their tongues. The girl asks, Who dyou like crush? and he replies with Youre prettier. Shes funnier. She writes, I w ish I hadnt asked indicating she dec having asked. The implicit meaning of Stealing Peas is that a boy and a girl go to a field and have fetch up in the pea rows We crawled, slit the skins, with bitten nails, chutes of our tongues-these all(prenominal) help to heighten the air of intimate tension in the minute of arc stanza, with the weirdy as a way of be undetected cover that what they are doing is possibly forbidden and could get them in trouble, and this ceremony is reaffirmed by the mentioning of stolen discolour light.The use of the word stolen symbolises the loss of virginity or innocence, whilst the green showing the go ahead. The poet also describes how a special Ky shouted at a child we could not see which could every simply be another child in the field, or a child growing inside the girl- she has become pregnant, or lost her innocence. Heaney and Clarke both create strong feelings in their poems.In Blackberry Picking, Heaney conveys a sense of lust and avarit ia for the berries using images of the children hurriedly filling cans with the berries, and by using actors line much(prenominal) as ripen, flesh, and sticky. These words have actually sensual connotations and give the reader the impression that the poet was experiencing feelings of lust and greed at the cartridge holder, and that the acts are forbidden. Heaney is also personifying the berries by referring to the flesh of the berries perchance showing that he felt feelings towards them that you would feel towards a person.Heaney and Clarkes poems are, to an extent, divergent in their form and layout. And though they both appear different, the poems are both uniform in that they both focus more(prenominal) on the positive experiences, rather than the negative. Blackberry Picking is merged into two distinguishable stanzas with a sharp contrast amongst them. Heaney writes of the picking of the berries in the archetypal stanza, introduces sexual themes, uses aural devices, and utilises similes and metaphors to create strong imagery.In the endorsement stanza, he then moves on to talk about the how the berries are ruined- a rat-grey fungus, glutting on their cache. There is a notable difference among the two stanzas of Blackberry Picking. The first stanza is very long, describing the joy of the children as they go out collecting berries, but the second stanza, where Heaney duologue about the fungus, is considerably shorter- it seems that Heaney is recalling the good collapse of the holding fondly, whilst quickly brushing over the bad.Unlike Blackberry Picking, Clarke has structured Stealing Peas into four stanzas. In the first stanza, Clarke sets the scene for the poem by describing the flow far out, the warm evening voices and the park clipped privet. In the second stanza the poet describes a boy, mentioning that he wore a red-hot shirt with an Aertex logo, and more sexual verbiage is introduced filthy with syrups, grime of the town park, tend rils of my hair. Filthy and grime suggesting the sensual, dirty, and perhaps forbidden acts that they are doing.There also is a notable difference between the four different stanzas of Stealing Peas in terms of length. The first stanza is very short, showing that Clarke is choosing not to remember her surroundings at the time so strongly, while the second stanza is much longer, indicating that the time spent with this boy, crawling in the pea rows together, meant more to her than any other part of the day, and that she herself has selected this part of the memory to stand out more vividly than any other.The third stanza is noticeably shorter, with her asking him Who dyou like best? The use of sound is important in both poems, and both poets use it to great effect. Techniques such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and rhyme- the words purple choke off and hard as a gnarl, smelt of rot and knew they would not in Blackberry Picking, are all strategically used to evoke images and creat e sounds by Heaney and Clarke.In Blackberry Picking, the use the earn p in pricks, our palms is short and sharp to emphasise the severeness of the pricks from the blackberry thorns, b in dyed our boots and berries in the byre is very bubbly and bouncy, reflecting the childrens emotions as they set out on a journey of exploration, whilst the use of f in filled we gear up fur is also soft sounding- creeping in, similar to how the Heaney talks about how the rat-grey fungus seeps in and ruins the blackberries.Clarke also uses aural devices alliteration with the use of the letter s in slit the skins, dowery the reader to visualise the sounds created when the children, crawling through the rows, and stealing the pea pods, slit the skins open. The s, when said aloud, is a soft sound, but in the context of the stanza, creates a more sinister, hissing sound, as though the skins are being hastily ripped open in lust. Again, the use of the letter s in slid the peas helps the reader visual ize almost hear, the youths slide the peas down the chutes of their tongues.Lastly, the use of onomatopoeia in a lawn-mower murmured, creates a very sexual feeling- perhaps from the boy, towards the girl. In conclusion, it can be seen that the two poems are alike in legion(predicate) ways such as they both recount childhood experiences that the poets regretted. What I found interesting was how Heaney and Clarke wrote the poems, spending more time describing the good experiences, rather than the unfortunate in a way suggesting that the poets have selectively recorded these events in their minds.