For any child living on a farm, your childhood would come with many different experiences. To look back on some experiences as an adult, you see the deeper meaning on how each story impacted you. Seamus Heaney’s poems “The Barn” and “Blackberry-Picking” are about a child’s point of view of experiences living on a farm. “The Barn” is about a family’s barn on a farm and “Blackberry-Picking” is on the subject of going out to pick and eat blackberries on the farm. Even though, they are about two different experiences they share a common theme of hard realities faced in life. Through the use of imagery and tone, Heaney is able to show how fear and disappointment comes into a child’s life.
“The Barn” comes from the point of view of a child in the barn on a farm. For this child, the barn was a terrifying scene. With a young imagination, you get descriptive pictures of what they felt. In line 3 the speaker describes the barn as being “musky dark”. “The floor was mouse-grey, smooth, chilly concrete. (5) After hearing those phrases, you start to picture what this barn …show more content…
Heaney is able to show lessons learned during childhood that lead up to you growing up. Differences that stood out between both poems was the climax. In “Blackberry-Picking” the climax is built up until the end, while in “The Barn” it’s spread out throughout the entire poem. In the second stanza of “Blackberry-Picking”, the tone changes from being pleased to upset. For the speaker, they realize that the berry supply is ending and so is the season.
For Heaney, “The Barn” and “Blackberry-Picking” both show the feeling of what it’s like to face harsh realities as a child. Even though, they both are two completely stories, they are shown with the same elements of poetry: imaginary and tone. To remember such stories as an adult, cue the picture that these memories forever impacted Heaney’s life. For anyone reading these poem, it’s easy to