Kinnell's Attraction To Blackberry

In this poem, Kinnell demonstrates a profound metaphoric relationship between the tangible objects of blackberries, and the intangible objects of words. He feels an attraction to blackberries such as with taste, touch, and appearance. That notion is supported throughout the poem. For example, line 7 states the following: "Lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries," illustrating his love for the taste of delectable fruits. Furthermore, it demonstrates the sensory characteristics of touch, for he physically touches and eats the fruit. In a strange way, readers taste and touch the fruit too with Kinnell's expressions of words. In line 8, he exhibits the sensory characteristic of taste because he eats the blackberries as stated: "fall