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Galway Kinnell's 'Blackberry Eating'
Blackberries Galway Kinnell’s “Blackberry Eating” (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sounds, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 890-891 has many senses toward blackberry weather. Blackberry weather accrue during late September. This is when people pick blackberries and make items out of them. Blackberry jam or jelly and blackberry cobbler are two things that most people makes. The senses of blackberries, words from the poem, and the fall breeze for blackberries are something that comes to mind when I hear blackberries. The taste of blackberries is a way that is hard to explain. When eating a blackberries that can be “fat, overripe, icy, black.” (890) Blackberries have a seed like in them

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