Seamus Heaney - Blackberry Picking

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  • Seamus Heaney reads his poem Blackberry Picking
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  • @karenharris8251
    @karenharris8251 Před 4 lety +21

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

    • @kaitlynhuismannevin8279
      @kaitlynhuismannevin8279 Před 4 lety +2

      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
      @adamcraft7888 Před 3 lety +2

      @@kaitlynhuismannevin8279 what the fuck are you on about

  • @amber0307
    @amber0307 Před 3 lety +34

    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
      @markizfun Před 2 lety +1

      doing my summer exams on it rn

  • @MsOtisRegrets1
    @MsOtisRegrets1 Před 9 lety +60

    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
      @PG13Games Před 4 lety +2

      Wtf

    • @Koomoee
      @Koomoee Před 2 lety +1

      @@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
      @briank10101 Před rokem +2

      Lilt, with the totally tropical taste.

  • @CapriciousTF
    @CapriciousTF Před 7 lety +53

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

  • @BabsyRhythm
    @BabsyRhythm Před 11 lety +18

    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

  • @SuperJnoonan
    @SuperJnoonan Před 6 lety +19

    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.

  • @yvonnerosenfield
    @yvonnerosenfield Před 8 lety +20

    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

  • @donaghobrien9580
    @donaghobrien9580 Před 2 lety +4

    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.

  • @rolom3
    @rolom3 Před 10 měsíci +2

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

  • @theresaryan7100
    @theresaryan7100 Před rokem +1

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

  • @benreadspoetry7958
    @benreadspoetry7958 Před 3 lety +4

    I get such a lump in my throat hearing this.

  • @babyclanger07
    @babyclanger07 Před 9 lety +6

    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.

  • @adrianmcgachie
    @adrianmcgachie Před 3 lety

    Salivating right now, mid-winter!

  • @ranmer11
    @ranmer11 Před rokem +2

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

  • @barrytebb5292
    @barrytebb5292 Před 10 lety +7

    HIS BEST POEM

  • @6kortez9
    @6kortez9 Před 3 lety +4

    Thank u for the homework

  • @johndoyle486
    @johndoyle486 Před 7 lety +2

    R.I.P. Maestro

  • @jaredcollinsmusic
    @jaredcollinsmusic Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @draganpetrovic1280
    @draganpetrovic1280 Před 3 měsíci

    Support, great

  • @amywheeler9382
    @amywheeler9382 Před 3 lety

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

  • @incesstinshee
    @incesstinshee Před 10 lety +1

    the video doesnt work....

  • @auntiecarol
    @auntiecarol Před rokem

    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.

  • @themangoplayer7136
    @themangoplayer7136 Před 4 lety +4

    I am not reading page 30 in fire and ice

  • @Ethan-ic5oh
    @Ethan-ic5oh Před 7 lety +2

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

  • @tescosmixtape2619
    @tescosmixtape2619 Před 7 lety +1

    we have to learn this

  • @CaptainCrashDummy
    @CaptainCrashDummy Před 7 lety +1

    what page of the book is this particular poem on

  • @21k5nti
    @21k5nti Před 3 lety +2

    i used this foe english :D

  • @jackychung6510
    @jackychung6510 Před 3 lety +3

    hi

  • @kevinwhitaker119
    @kevinwhitaker119 Před 3 lety

    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 ...!!! 🍺😁👍🇨🇮🇮🇪🌍🌎🌏🇬🇧🇮🇪🇨🇮🇨🇮

  • @jaymmrz
    @jaymmrz Před 2 lety +2

    I'm Here to find the answers to my assignment

  • @themangoplayer7136
    @themangoplayer7136 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @shrooqmm9352
    @shrooqmm9352 Před 5 lety +2

    اووف بحثي طلع على قصائدك

  • @dominikasn8924
    @dominikasn8924 Před 9 lety +3

    This is seamus heaney?

  • @maguiresam8909
    @maguiresam8909 Před 3 lety +2

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

  • @amywheeler9382
    @amywheeler9382 Před 3 lety

    Have

  • @clockyles2405
    @clockyles2405 Před 5 lety +2

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

  • @billmyers991
    @billmyers991 Před 3 lety

    Man's eyes are always bigger than his stomach

  • @skelliger
    @skelliger Před 2 lety

    english homework wildin

  • @xXj3tbl4ckjun3Xx
    @xXj3tbl4ckjun3Xx Před 3 lety +5

    he looks like all three top gear presenters at once

  • @lissa9308
    @lissa9308 Před 2 lety +1

    m

  • @superop3586
    @superop3586 Před 3 lety

    Yes 100 comment

  • @stabb
    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

    chupapi munyanyo

  • @cianhoey3298
    @cianhoey3298 Před 3 lety +2

    Here from English homework

  • @j.sizzle1669
    @j.sizzle1669 Před 4 lety

    My teacher made me watch this

    • @ellioto5516
      @ellioto5516 Před 4 lety +2

      don't care

    • @Oscoe63
      @Oscoe63 Před 3 lety +1

      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.

  • @sambokingsley7784
    @sambokingsley7784 Před 3 lety

    Is this about sex?

    • @bread-4326
      @bread-4326 Před 2 lety

      no

    • @aerqophs1546
      @aerqophs1546 Před rokem

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

  • @kittengirl2072
    @kittengirl2072 Před 6 lety +1

    my teacher forced my class to watch this lol

  • @philipoconnor2236
    @philipoconnor2236 Před 4 lety

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

  • @manu2banu
    @manu2banu Před 7 lety

    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
      @helenold4690 Před 7 lety +2

      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
      @meabhsparrow3864 Před 4 lety

      hi seamy

    • @PhilHoy97
      @PhilHoy97 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @theeggtimertictic1136
      @theeggtimertictic1136 Před 2 lety

      @@PhilHoy97 And revisited years later.

  • @shgaming9349
    @shgaming9349 Před 8 lety +2

    Ano its crap

  • @GazVideos2014
    @GazVideos2014 Před 8 lety +1

    Its bad...

  • @iainrobb2076
    @iainrobb2076 Před 10 lety +3

    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
      @uinvin Před 10 lety +21

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

    • @iainrobb2076
      @iainrobb2076 Před 10 lety +2

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

    • @uinvin
      @uinvin Před 10 lety +4

      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
      @iainrobb2076 Před 10 lety +2

      Don't worry about it. Sometimes on CZcams 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
      @philipoconnor2236 Před 4 lety +1

      @@iainrobb2076 recognise and cherish it as it is yours

  • @GazVideos2014
    @GazVideos2014 Před 8 lety

    Yawnnn.....

  • @stabb
    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

    chupapi munyanyo

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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    @stabb Před 2 lety +1

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