The Black Berry Wears a Thorn in His Side
The Black Berry Wears a Thorn in His Side - meaning Summary
Small Resilience Unnoticed
The poem personifies a blackberry that bears a thorn and keeps giving fruit despite pain. It endures on fences, trees and rocks without complaint and receives no sympathy. Observers respond with casual advice rather than empathy, and the poem closes on a tone of quiet admiration for the berry’s persistent, uncomplaining generosity. The image suggests resilience and self-sacrifice in the face of unnoticed suffering.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Black Berry wears a Thorn in his side But no Man heard Him cry He offers His Berry, just the same To Partridge and to Boy He sometimes holds upon the Fence Or struggles to a Tree Or clasps a Rock, with both His Hands But not for Sympathy We tell a Hurt to cool it This Mourner to the Sky A little further reaches instead Brave Black Berry
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