Blackberry By Sylvia Plath

In the poem “Blackberrying” by Sylvia Plath, the image of blackberries keeps reoccurring throughout the poem. While I do not know the speaker’s background of her works, I get a feeling of the poem is about struggling and hardship in life. After I googled Sylvia past life experience, it was confirmed to me that a lot of her works revolves around using imageries to represent hope and death. In stanza 1, she beginnings with “nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries.” She is describing the hopes and dreams that she struggles to keep in life. According to my research, in ancient England, blackberries were used as treatment for “burns and scolds” for blacksmiths. In stanza 2, he described the “overhead go the choughs in black,