Nature essay

Question 1

Nature in blackberry picking

Answer 1

1 - “Late August, given heavy rain and sun” / “for a full week the blackberries would ripen”
2- “Where briars scratches and wet grass bleaches our boots” / Round hayfields, cornfields and potato drills”
3- “a rat grey fungus” + “once off the bush The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour”

Question 2

Nature in death of a naturalist

Answer 2

1-“daily it sweltered in the punishing sun” few lines down “Wove a strong gauze of sound around the smell”
2-“The fattening dots burst into nimble-swimming tadpoles” /“You could tell the weather by frogs too/For they were yellow in the sun and brown in the rain” Volta before this sentence
3-“The great slime kings Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew that if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it”

Question 3

Nature in personal helicon

Answer 3

1-“I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells”/“of waterweed, fungus and dank moss”
2-“Plummeted down at the end of a rope”/“so deep you saw no reflection in it”
3-“Now to try pry the roots, to finger slime”/“To stare big eyed narcissus”