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A Study Guide for Galway Kinnell's "Blackberry Eating" - Gale
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Blackberry Eating
Galway Kinnell
1980
Introduction
Galway Kinnell's Blackberry Eating
appears in his fifteenth collection of poetry, Mortal Acts, Mortal Words, published in 1980. Blackberry Eating
is a fourteen-line quatorzain, a term applied to fourteen-line poems that do not conform to one of the three sonnet formats. Although there is no rhyme scheme, the poem is clearly divided into an octave and sestet, as in the Petrarchan sonnet. Kinnell's poem is one long sentence, filled with rich imagery and several examples of alliteration. Kinnell also makes use of the simile in linking the power of blackberries to the power of words. This is an action poem, not a reflective one. With the first line, Kinnell describes the act of picking blackberries, and at the end, he describes creating words. Important themes include nature, poetic creativity, and the Fall of Man. Blackberry Eating
is included in Kinnell's A New Selected Poems (2006). Blackberry Eating
is also included in the Bedford Introduction to Literature, eighth edition, published in 2008.
Author Biography
Kinnell was born February 1, 1927, in Providence, Rhode Island. He is the youngest of four children born to James Scott and Elizabeth Kinnell. After graduation from high school, Kinnell attended Princeton University, graduating summa cum laude in 1948. The following year he received a master's of art degree from the University of Rochester. After completing his education, Kinnell supervised the liberal arts program at the University of Chicago until 1955. In 1956 and 1957, he taught at the University of Grenoble, in Grenoble, France, as a Fulbright lecturer. A second Fulbright provided a lectureship at the University of Iran, in Teheran, in
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