Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking

[@amber0307]

We read this at school, and at the time I never really appreciated it. Now, 20 years on, it is one of my favourite poems. I can still hear my English teacher's voice as she read it.

[@markizfun]

doing my summer exams on it rn

[@karenharris8251]

Such a powerful metaphor for life and death. Youthful naivety and exuberance inevitably turning into resignation and decay.

[@kaitlynhuismannevin8279]

Yeah about girls going through puberty and breasts growing. And the guys hitting puberty and wanting girls. And then the childhood innocence always disappearing once youth grows to adolescent years. We all want the youth joy and innocence to last and it never does.

[@adamcraft7888]

@@kaitlynhuismannevin8279 what the fuck are you on about

[@MsOtisRegrets1]

It's the way he reads this, with that beautiful lilt in his voice and the passion for his childhood and blackberry picking. I could listen to this over and over again, soothing, beautiful. I can almost taste that first blackberry.

[@PG13Games]

Wtf

[@Koomoee]

@@PG13Games You'll understand when you're older. Which I'm sure you are now considering that you wrote that unnecessary reply 2 years ago.

[@briank10101]

Lilt, with the totally tropical taste.

[@SuperJnoonan]

I went to the Seamus Heany centre last year. It was amazing. We read this exact poem, and we shared the joy of his poems.

[@adamcraft7888]

Stfu

[@ryancarlin2319]

@@adamcraft7888 hahahaha

[@BabsyRhythm]

Such a lovely man, poet his words visual in memories and tears words deep in my heart Bless you, Seamus, for this and especially Clearances and wish I was pulling and folding sheets with my mother

[@CapriciousTF]

you my friend just saved me reading page 30 of fire and ice 1

[@celll1210]

Mycroft Holmes its an 1st year english textbook

[@aval.c8507]

Same hahaha

[@MasseyManPhotography]

Same

[@nikolmarkova4407]

Ahah for the exammssss eeeek

[@bmacgaming8983]

LT007 Productions same

[@rolom3]

Listening to him read his poetry makes me cry I don’t know why

[@donaghobrien9580]

I had the honour of meeting home. It was in a restaurant in Co. Wicklow where he lived. I was 5 and the waiters and waitresses had planned to give me a cake at the table and sang me happy birthday and he was in the corner and wished me a happy birthday.

[@yvonnerosenfield]

Oh How I would love to talk to this man. The sound of his voice sounds like Sligo. When visiting my Grandmothers house in Mulaghmore and cousins" The Feeney's" I walked a lane with rock walls and tons of beautiful blackberries. Their Grand Mother is buried next to Wm.Butler Yeats in Drumcliff. Alas, at 80 years old no more travel. What a great Poet. yvonne

[@alfieedwards3890]

@Sadaf Sahin idk lol

[@theresaryan7100]

Having Irish heritage (both my late parents), I could not but love poems by "Seamus Heaney" , love this poem!

[@babyclanger07]

Just in from that late august rain and rewarded with a bountiful blackberry harvest. And to complement my spoils of the hedges I had to have Seamus. Go raibh Maith agat.

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

The blackberries are amazing this year (2021) ... very few maggots!

[@benreadspoetry7958]

I get such a lump in my throat hearing this.

[@rolom3]

Me too!

[@ranmer11]

Now I love my mom more for cooking our little tins-ful into jam and pie

[@adrianmcgachie]

Salivating right now, mid-winter!

[@6kortez9]

Thank u for the homework

[@barrytebb5292]

HIS BEST POEM

[@jaredcollinsmusic]

Each year I'd hope they'd keep, knew they would not. Gorgeous..../////////////

[@johndoyle486]

R.I.P. Maestro

[@jaymmrz]

I'm Here to find the answers to my assignment

[@mollynovak1659]

same lol

[@jaymmrz]

@@mollynovak1659 Still didnt find them😭😭

[@themangoplayer7136]

I am not reading page 30 in fire and ice

[@auntiecarol]

Derry born (county not the city), and not far from where Heaney was raised. I HATE his slurred QUB/Harvard accent. But I love his poetry. His metre is bang on, and he transports me to magical places.

[@draganpetrovic1280]

Support, great

[@amywheeler9382]

I haven’t to do some research on him for my English work

[@kevinwhitaker119]

Seamus heany: WHAT A BRILLIANT POET TO ME HE SHOULD BE THE POET LAUREATE U.K. 🇨🇮🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 HIS WORKS CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH AND CRY, THINK...??? AND SMILE, ... ALONGSIDE SAMUEL BECKETT ( WAITING FOR GODOT ) THEY GIVE US SOME OF THE BEST WORK'S EVER ...!!! 🍺😁👍🇨🇮🇮🇪🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇮🇪🇨🇮🇨🇮

[@incesstinshee]

the video doesnt work....

[@21k5nti]

i used this foe english :D

[@CaptainCrashDummy]

what page of the book is this particular poem on

[@chanellegrima969]

depends on the book

[@Crymorexoxo]

When was this recorded? if you can get back to me that would be great

[@muhammadabdullah5147]

Ethan Hamilton in 2013 it was recorded

[@themangoplayer7136]

I am your Spanish friend 😉 Only st Mary’s 1st year will understand

[@liamjoy6530]

Shut up

[@liamjoy6530]

OnLy MaRy’S fIrSt YeAr WiLl UnDeRsTaNd

[@tescosmixtape2619]

we have to learn this

[@siobhanmacs6759]

mlgzippy same

[@jackychung6510]

hi

[@jackychung6510]

thanks for two likes

[@clockyles2405]

Me and my friend were fucking dying in class when we heard this.

[@dominikasn8924]

This is seamus heaney?

[@samcoffey6127]

Of course it is dimwit !

[@shrooqmm9352]

اووف بحثي طلع على قصائدك

[@lam5106]

shrooq mm سايم

[@themangoplayer7136]

shrooq mm WTF

[@xXj3tbl4ckjun3Xx]

he looks like all three top gear presenters at once

[@maguiresam8909]

Isn't Seamus something ...and all that despite the cruel fate of bein reared in Doire

[@billmyers991]

Man's eyes are always bigger than his stomach

[@skelliger]

english homework wildin

[@cianhoey3298]

Here from English homework

[@sleep-deprivedgroup1908]

Sameeeeee

[@amywheeler9382]

Have

[@lissa9308]

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[@stabb]

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[@sambokingsley7784]

Is this about sex?

[@bread-4326]

no

[@aerqophs1546]

@@bread-4326 kinda is though, especially with the references to Bluebeard, lust, and "the first one"

[@superop3586]

Yes 100 comment

[@kittengirl2072]

my teacher forced my class to watch this lol

[@jigsawmuzak]

Forced? This is privilage.

[@j.sizzle1669]

My teacher made me watch this

[@ellioto5516]

don't care

[@Oscoe63]

And hopefully someday you'll be grateful to that teacher. This is poetry at its best and most beautiful. It's got the whole package: the imagery, the five senses, and the allegory of life and death.

[@manu2banu]

lm sorry, did I missed something? maybe I did , maybe I'm an old fashioned poetry reader ? Maybe sun rimes better with fun , run , cancun. ....maybe poetry doesn't have to be such a mystery ..... This man made the poetry a complicated mystery that will give you at the end a painful headache. Now , you explain me how a 12 years old student must to remember or analise that poem ( if you can call it poem )

[@helenold4690]

I first read this poem at school when I was about 12 or 13. Learned it by heart and have never forgotten it, I'm now in my 50s.

[@meabhsparrow3864]

hi seamy

[@PhilHoy97]

Poems aren’t written to be analysed, they’re written to be enjoyed, to be lost in.

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

@@PhilHoy97 And revisited years later.

[@philipoconnor2236]

He ever heard of Jam. The berries crumbled in his own domestic ignorance

[@shgaming9349]

Ano its crap

[@crybabycarousel5868]

No it's not crap

[@iainrobb2076]

Just passable. It's basically just slightly elegant prose put into lines with a few pretty but unexceptional images. Still a good deal better than his interminable Nobel acceptance speech, though. At least this is concise and has a theme.

[@uinvin]

Your comment tastes even more bitter than an unripe blackberry. Get over it.

[@iainrobb2076]

You're right. I am being a bit bitter. I admit you have a point.

[@uinvin]

Iain Robb Apologies Iain, it was too quick a reaction from my side. Maybe I am just a bit of a brier myself this evening.

[@iainrobb2076]

Don't worry about it. Sometimes on KZbin I can be a bit of ass, and it is down to my lack of recognition for my own poetry I sometimes put comments up like these. I do find his work overrated, though.

[@philipoconnor2236]

@@iainrobb2076 recognise and cherish it as it is yours

[@GazVideos2014]

Its bad...

[@Mark-td6wh]

Gareth Mc this poem???

[@GazVideos2014]

Yawnnn.....

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