This report examines the connections of growing up is painful but inevitable. The texts I have used are Blackberry-Picking and Death of a Naturalist both poems by Seamus Heaney, the Way Way Back, directed by Nat Faxton and Jim Rash, and The Boy in Striped Pyjamas directed by Mark Herman. I believe that all the texts I’ve studied comment on the idea of growing up being a struggle. The struggle is mad worse because the children haven’t been exposed to disappointment whilst thinking the world is perfect and has no faults.
Blackberry-Picking is a poem written by Seamus Heaney. This poem is all about children succumbing to the harsh realities of the world. The children and are yet to lose their innocence and haven’t been opened …show more content…
The poem explores the idea that the realities of the world can hurt when you haven’t yet been exposed to them. Another key point the author used was growing up is painful but inevitable; the author has used structure to portray this. The poem is about a young boy collecting frogspawn from a flax-dam. The poem has relevance to the innocence of the young lad as he doesn’t know how the world can have harsh realities. The poems layout of the two separate stanzas shows innocence in the first and then the realities of losing his innocence in the second. Death in the tittle of Death of a naturalist has relevance because the death referred to in this poem is metaphorical. It is the loss of innocent enthusiasm as the realities of life are realized, the point of him losing his innocence. This emphasizes that growing up is painful but inevitable. Some Examples of structure portraying this idea is the first stanza has excitement and enthusiasm as the young boy is innocent and hasn’t been exposed to disappointment or grief. Poem is mainly about the transition from innocence to experience, and as we grow up we have to come to terms with something that can be unpleasant or