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English 1B – Essay Two (Poetry – Theme) Length: 5-6 pages Due date: Check Canvas(the formate of this essay is similar to the revision essay, you should include the explaination for each sentence of the poems in the essay)The Task: Select one of the options from below and write a five to six-page essay that, through explications of the poems, explores the themes mentioned below.Option Three: Using Seamus Heaney’s “Blackberry Picking” and Galway Kinnell’s “Blackberry Eating” explore how each poet writes about the pleasures and / or disappointments of gathering and eating blackberries. Focus on the similarities of the poems (the differences should not be your focus). Do not skip any language of the poem. You must pay careful attention to the tone of each poem. Make sure that you also pay close attention to the music of the language. Make sure that you include any literary devices (metaphors, alliteration etc.).To Prepare: To help you better prepare for the essay, I want you, before you begin, to print out copies of the poems you are writing about and then, in the margins, summarize, word for word, what the poet is describing/discussing. I’d also like you to write down your initial reflections and analyses about what you might infer from the language of the poems. This way, before you begin writing, you will have engaged the poems closely enough to provide you with enough material to shape your initial writing direction. Note: your writing task will be much easier if you take the time to read the poems many times so that you will be very familiar with what happens in them.Audience: As you did for the last essay, I want you to write as if you are writing to your fellow classmates— which means that you will be writing for an audience who is familiar with the poem. DO NOT USE “I” OR “YOU” FOR THIS ESSAY.Structure: Unlike the previous essay, this time you must provide a formal introduction, a thesis statement, and a conclusion that draws together everything you have discussed (and explains, ultimately, how the theme is explored in the poems you have written about). Citation: Since you will be writing about two different poems, you will need to differentiate between them. If the poems are written by the same author, then use an abbreviated version of the title (for example: “Death of a Naturalist” = “Naturalist”). Cite the line number (s) as well. If you write about “Blackberry Picking” and “Blackberry Eating,” then use the poet’s last name and the line number. Remember, you only need to cite the title / author in the parentheses if you are either (a) quoting from the poem for the first time (and you have not included the title or poet’s name in your sentence) or (b) if you are switching between poems.Use the following for your works cited requirement (please note EXACTLY how it is formatted)Poet’s Last Name, Poet’s First Name. “Title of Poem.” English 1B Course Reader: Spring 2017. Ed. Nathan Wirth. Novato, CA: Nathan’s Mind Inc. 2017. Print.Outside Sources: I do not want you to reference any outside sources.Upload to Canvas: (1) A letter that discusses your difficulties and/or successes writing the essay (2) Your Final Draft. No printed copies will be accepted. Please make the first page of the document your process letter. You can find a sample process letter in this course reader.Formatting: All written work (except for rough drafts and notes) must be typed and double spaced. Pages must be numbered. Include a title. No large gaps between paragraphs. Underline your thesis statement. You must use Times New Roman 12 pt. If you don’t follow the proper formatting, I will return the paper to you. It is essential that you meet the minimum required page limit. If you do not, then points will be deducted from your essay. You are always welcome to write more than the minimum.Process Letter: You are also required to include a brief letter that outlines the difficulties and successes you experienced while working on your essay. Your letter should be a short reflection (at least a paragraph) about your experience writing your essay. What did you struggle with? What problems did you encounter? How did you overcome them? What do you feel satisfied about? Any concerns that you want me to address when I read your essay?Plagiarism: Here is the official CCSF policy on plagiarism: “Plagiarism is defined as the unauthorized use of the language and thought of another author and representing them as your own.” Plagiarism is a violation of the rules of student conduct, and discipline may include, but is not limited to,” a failing grade in an assignment, test, or class in proven cases of cheating or plagiarism or other academic dishonesty.” My official policy is that you will receive a failing grade for the assignment (0 points for the assignment). If you should plagiarize a second time, then you will receive a failing grade for the class.here are the 2 poems for the essay:1.Blackberry Picking by Seamus HeaneyLate August, given heavy rain and sunFor a full week, the blackberries would ripen.At first, just one, a glossy purple clotAmong others, red, green, hard as a knot.You ate that first one and its flesh was sweetLike thickened wine: summer’s blood was in itLeaving stains upon the tongue and lust forPicking. Then red ones inked up and that hungerSent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-potsWhere briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots. Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drillsWe trekked and picked until the cans were fullUntil the tinkling bottom had been coveredWith green ones, and on top big dark blobs burnedLike a plate of eyes. Our hands were pepperedWith thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s.We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.But when the bath was filled we found a fur,A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.The juice was stinking too. Once off the bushThe fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fairThat all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.Each year I hoped they’d keep, knew they would not.2.Blackberry Eating by Galway KinnellI love to go out in late Septemberamong the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberriesto eat blackberries for breakfast,the stalks very prickly, a penaltythey earn for knowing the black artof blackberry-making; and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue,as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words like strengths or squinched,many-lettered, one-syllabled lumps,which I squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black languageof blackberry — eating in late September.