Discussion 3 And 4

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Discussion 3 and 4

Discussion 3:

“Blackberry Eating” is a masterpiece of a poem penned down by “Galway Kinnell”. This poem is a brilliant piece of writing that depicts the beauty of a fruit and the glory of its taste. The peom enlightens on two subjects carries a very deep meaning. The poet “Galway Kinnell” tries to elaborate a sad feeling inside shiny, colorful words.

The poem starts with Kinnell, expressing that he walked into a garden where he sees branches of trees loaded with blackberries. According to the poem, it’s the start of the autumn season as the poet has informed in the very first line “I love to go out in late September” (Kinnell). Seems like the poet likes the autumn very much and everything associated to it. This is the reason he also loves the blackberries very much. He expresses his love for black berries in the words “the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries”

In the second part of the poem, the poet takes a sharp turn and goes into a deep saddening feeling that such a beauty is accompanied with prickles. The poet is very sad over the fact that although the blackberries are very beautiful, ripe and juicy but still, there are ugly prickles on the branches with them. Kinnell considers it a punishment for being creative and beautiful. He feels that the trees gets punished for creating such a pretty thing, in the same way like the poet gets hurt for his being so truthful and honest. He elaborates some words that he cannot stop himself for saying, but people don’t like and punish him through taunts. Similarly the prickles on the branches of the trees act and hurt it for giving out such a beautiful and honest output.

Discussion 4:

Writing is a hard task and requires a continuous flow of ideas. Writers work very hard to write a good piece of writing. They go through it again and again till the right type of story or poem or whatever piece of writing is intended is achieved. Most important part of writing is a draft. Drafting refers to the collection of ides or gathering all the ideas at one place from where they can be then formed into an essay or any piece of writing. There is another term in writing where the author goes through his whole work once again after completing the whole piece of writing. Then the author points out the mistakes that have happened in the whole piece of writing and then improves it. It is also kind of proof reading.

A technique of drafting is revising is known as “hot-spotting”. Hot spotting is especially useful for reflective writing, where the writer has to pick up ideas from some story, novel or poem. It is very easy to use “hot-spotting” in the drafting or the revising of any document. Just pick up the piece of writing that you want to edit, and then highlight or point out the details that you want to choose for your work. You can either highlight or underline the point for further use. Now take a highlighted potion or the hotspot and copy it on a new paper. If you are working on a computer, paste it on a new document. No start writing on this hotspot, for fifteen to twenty minutes. Just connect all the dots or connecting idea to the hotspot, whatever comes in your mind. Repeat the same process for as many times as you like, until you seem satisfied with your piece of writing. At the end gather all those idea and combine them to make a final essay or story and give finishing touches.

Works Cited

Kinnell, G. (1980). Blackberry eating. Poetry, 180, 020. Retrieved from: https://www.vitalsource.com/