After Apple-Picking

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In After Apple-Picking, Robert Frost uses various metaphors as a way of comparing things in life to apple picking, by enabling the reader to view his work from numerous perspectives. Frost’s metaphors are used in the themes of comparisons, senses, and tired. Frost uses analogies throughout the poem to enable the reader to view the apple picker and his job farther than just apple picking. His use of imagery actually take the reader on the journey of the apple picker’s life. His metaphors appeal to the reader because they are things we all experience in life.
The speaker also describes other comparisons using his five senses. In lines 10-11 he says “ I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass”. He is comparing the blurriness of his sight to his sight looking through a pane of glass. In lines 33-34 he says “there were ten thousand, thousand fruit to touch.” He is comparing all the fruit to touch to all the things to accomplish in life.
In lines 10-11 the speaker feels himself starting to doze off. He has been feeling drowsy since he looked through the pane of glass. As he looked through the pane of glass his vision became distorted, and even after rubbing his eyes his vision still appears distorted. This gives him a different perspective of his surroundings. The speaker is actually thinking back upon his day and is dreaming. He starts to dream about apples.
The speaker talks about there being so much fruit to harvest. All the “fruit to touch” are all the things in life to accomplish. He feels very pressured to accomplish all of the things he wants in life. He does not want to fail and let those “apples” slip through his hands. All of the “apples” that fell does not matter now. The speake...

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...d of sleep known as hibernation. After hibernation is over the woodchuck usually reappears for the beginning or spring. You can look at this two ways. The speaker is comparing his sleep to the hibernation of a woodchuck. After the woodchucks “sleep” he willl wake up to a new beautiful beginning or spring. The speakers sleep is death and his new beautiful beginning is heaven.
Frost’s use of metaphors and imagery makes the reader feel as if they have actually taken the journey of the apple-picker’s life. His analogies are so realistic. After reading this poem the reader is capable of viewing the poem further than an apple-picker’s journey of life to death. His metaphors speaks to the reader because his work is full life experiences that the reader can relate to. After reading this poem you feel as if you know the apple-picker, as if the apple-picker could be you.

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