About Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
...hich is the selection of the words, is very dark and gloomy as we can see in the poem such as “cacophonous”, and “burnt or blown sky”. In the poem, the birds were "protesting, protesting" and after one more "hook," the path ends. Her description is beautiful with wings like "Chinese screens" and "honey-feast" that are like heaven. However, the image of flies, usually seen around bad things or death. The third stanza has the image of laundry slapping her in the face and a mechanical image of silversmiths working with an "intractable metal." These images are after the beauty of the natural images. There is a strong image of the path, which ends at the "hills’ northern face, and the face is orange rock", but the view is of "nothing, nothing but a great space." emphasizes the empty and bleak mood of the poem. This is connection to the nothing sentence at the beginning of the poem. Entirely, the central image of the 1st stanza is of nature and the blackberries that "love" and friendly to her. In the 2nd stanza, the image is of birds and flies that are "protesting". The sea is the central image of the 3rd stanza with...