Berry Bush by: Robert Pinsky

The poem Berry Bush published by Robert Pinsky was a poem that I found myself reading many times before I came up with anything to write about. Then it hit me all of a sudden and I looked back and said to myself that this poem is very true in many ways. This poem is broken up into three stanzas and this is how I will go about explaining the poem. In the first stanza I interpretated that every one got up and started to leave a village called Long Point Village. People started to haul all there belongings down to the dock, including their houses, and many more needs and at high tide they tugged the houses to Provincetown. Now in the second stanza I got a little confused untill this line came about, " The traveller doesn't lift the raft on his back And lug it with him on his journey: oh no, he leaves it there behind him." After reading this I got the impression that Robert was trying to say that you have to leave past behind. All the old customs, hobbies and traditions and it is time to create new ones and move on in life even though it may be hard. But as it is stated in the third stanza "sweet berry, illegible ingested seed, scribble Of red allegiances raked along your rist; Under all. the dead thorns shaarper than the green." This right here sums it all up, shows that no matter what you do to forget about you past is impossible because in all truth that past is what made you who you are. The seed you ingested is the heart of you and no one will ever beable to take that away. And the last line there made me think that the dead thorns are your past and they are sharper than the new thorns because the old thorns have had a sharper impact on your life than the new thorns have had. ........Another week of poetry that I'v liked more and more >>>>