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Original poem reprinted online here: "Blackberrying" by Sylvia Plath More information about the Poet: Sylvia Plath "Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries."  I kept rereading this opening line for the past couple of days.  There's a dual focus here of the visual of the blackberries and the mindset of "nothing."  With these three 9-line stanzas there is more of a play of what is seen and what is not scene interspersed with technique and the personal in which I still don't get after rereading this poem. "Blackberries on either side, though on the right mainly, / A blackberry alley, going down in hooks, and a sea / Somewhere at the end of it,"  So the blackberry and the description of the setting serves more of a distraction than set up.  Note how the speaker is able to introduce a duplicitous line like, "somewhere at the end of it" which refers to the setting, but seems to be in line with the ambiguous terms lik...