Nobody In The Lane And Nothing But Blackberries Analysis

The tone of “Nobody in the lane, and nothing, nothing but blackberries” is very calm and informing because it is the beginning of the poem and this stanza is very happy and calm overall. It is informing the reader of what is happening in the poem and how blackberries play a part in this story and basically setting up the scene of what this story is. “I come to one bush of berries so ripe it is a bush of flies,
Hanging their blue-green bellies and their wing panes in a Chinese screen.” These lines are read in a slight melancholy manner, very quiet and disgusted as well. These are the tones of these lines because in this stanza the mood has dropped somewhat from the first stanza, the blackberries have been turned into flies. This could possibly show the authors mood dropping as she thinks of these sweet berries being turned into these gross flies, most likely a metaphor for her thoughts of things changing because of depression. “These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.” In this line the tone seems somewhat aggressive and very depressive. These are the tones because this stanza is the saddest, showing the end of the author’s …show more content…
The second stanza is a weird one, it somewhat shows a person’s descend into depression, an example being the line about the flies and blackberries. What this person once enjoyed now seems unenjoyable and not worth their time. Stuff is getting darker and more destructive. The last stanza is the saddest. This person is now suffering with depression. This stanza is the darkest and saddest because it uses harsher words such as “slapping” and “beating”. This stanza describes somebody possibly suffering with depression or talking about somebody who is and how they don’t seem to see a way out. The overall meaning of this poem is hard to pinpoint, but it could be about somebodies terrible descend into mental