Subject: Write an explication of After Apple Picking. Robert Frost’s poem, After Apple-Picking, describes the personal reflections of an elderly man who lives on an apple orchard. This old man has lived a good life, and now must contemplate its quality and meaning. By performing an honest assessment of his past, the old man is better able to accept his inevitable future. The first six lines of this poem develop the situation in which the speaker has found himself. He has led a long and successful
concepts. These can be interpreted in many different ways, however, and poets often use the same symbols to produce varying effects. By comparing "After Apple-picking," by Robert Frost and "Apples," by Laurie Lee one can see how the poets coincidentally use similar subjects to discuss a broader, more meaningful issue. Both Frost and Lee use the apples in their poems to illustrate the relationship between man and nature, and to emphasize the importance of allowing natural processes to occur without interference
Images of Apple Picking Dr. Hofer “After Apple Picking” is fraught with imagery. Frost uses visual, olfactory, kinesthetic, tactile, and auditory imagery throughout this piece. Because the poem is filled with a variety of images, the reader is able to imagine the experience of apple picking. Frost brings He begins with “My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree” (line 1). This line gives the reader a visual concept of a long pointed ladder nestled in an apple tree. And, allows the reader
The True Meaning of After Apple Picking After Apple Picking has become so familiar and revered that it is difficult to recognize its strangeness. But it would probably seem familiar in any case; it is a prime example of how even the very great poems of Frost can induce a kind of ease about their deeper intensities. It is a proud poem, as if its very life depends upon a refusal to justify itself by any open evidence of what it is up to. The apparent "truth" about the poem is that it is really
Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” Set in the evening of a late autumn day at the end of harvest time, Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” can be interpreted in two ways. The first is that the poem is an insight into Frost’s thoughts on the triviality of life, especially his own. The second is that it is a metaphor for the Bible story of Adam and Eve. Whatever the interpretation, there is a tension between feelings of regret and satisfaction that is created and sustained throughout the entire
Apple picking is everyone’s favorite fall activity, how could it not be you get to eat and pick delicious apples. I have been going apple picking with my friend Mollie since I was six years old. We go to Honey Pot Orchard in the next town over and pick a large bag of apples, then go into the store get some cider, candy apples, and of course the BEST part of apple picking, the cider cinnamon sugar donuts. The donuts at Honey Pot are famous. I like to think people come to Honey Pot solely for the
Robert Frost's "After Apple-Picking" In the poem “After Apple-Picking”, Robert Frost has cleverly disguised many symbols and allusions to enhance the meaning of the poem. One must understand the parallel to understand the central theme of the poem. The apple mentioned in the poem could be connected to the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden. It essentially is the beginning of everything earthly and heavenly, therefore repelling death. To understand the complete meaning of Frost’s poem one
The Voice of Frost in Mending Wall, After Apple-Picking, and The Wood-Pile The "persona" narratives from the book - "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," and "The Wood-Pile" - also strive for inclusiveness although they are spoken throughout by a voice we are tempted to call "Frost." This voice has no particular back-country identity, nor is it obsessed or limited in its point of view; it seems rather to be exploring nature, other people, ideas, ways of saying things, for the sheer entertainment
themselves when they feel the end of their life might be near. In “After Apple Picking”, Robert Frost uses the symbols of a ladder, apples, and sleep to transform the simple job of apple picking into a poem about the end of a man’s life drawing to a close and its worth. From the beginning of the poem, Frost eludes to a more significant meaning when he says the ladder is poking up “through a tree / Toward heaven…” (1-2). The apple picker’s ladder is a symbol for Jacob’s ladder as described in the Bible
. Lily knew this would only happen in a million years. Mare’s baking was anything but good. ‘I’ll just take some of my apples to Bellah's home down the street, thought Lily, she makes the best pies ever. Later on she would then take a couple pies home to her mother and family and surprise everybody for tomorrow’s breakfast! Her mother’s strength was with her landscaping of rose gardens; she could live on the scent of roses, if she wanted to. Lily knew her history as well as any other student her
Ice-Cream," Frost's "After Apple-Picking," and Whitman's "The Wound-Dresser" and is hinted at in many other poems. This essay will discuss how the different poets treat the subject differently in relation to various aspects of composition, such as style, form, theme, tone, imagery, metaphor, and diction. Whitman describes the horrible scene that he sees as a nurse on a battlefield, including injured and dying soldiers. Frost describes life and death in a metaphor of apple picking. The narrator of his
figures in American history – inspiring this anthology – “Robert Frost – Breaking the Walls.” Some of the famous poems included in this anthology consist of, “The Road Not Taken”, “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Mending Wall” and “After Apple Picking.”. “The Road Not Taken” reflects Frost’s opinion that society is stressful, as the speaker agonizes over a life decision represented by the division of a road. “The Road Not Taken” involves ‘life’s choices’, and can be directly related to Frost’s
Under the stars of the sky, fifteen-year old Robert Frost explored the heavens through a telescope. He was seeking affirmation of the proverbial question that has plagued mankind for centuries—the proof and existence of God. While surveying the cosmos, Frost‘s interest was stirred, so he visited a library and obtained books that had illustrated star charts. Within these pages, his knowledge of the stars was edified and a poet was born. Frost‘s first poems were ―astronomical‖ and invoked a kinship
paper is about “After Apple Picking,” by Robert Frost, from the perspectives of Carl Phillips and Priscilla Paton. I would like to focus more on Carl Phillips discussion of “After Apple Picking” as his article has more focus on an actual argument on what “After Apple Picking” is about compared to Paton’s article which is more about how Frost went about writing his poems though his usage of metaphors and vague colloquialisms . Neither article was solely about “After Apple Picking,” but both had a few
Miles to Go Before I Sleep: Self Destruction and Impossible Standards As Seen Through Robert Frost’s “After Apple-Picking” Weaving in and out of a dream-like state, the persona of Robert Frost’s, “After Apple-Picking,” explores the tendency of man to set impossible personal standards and the desire to give in to the, “long sleep,” (After, 536) when these standards aren’t met. Through deeply intricate structure Frost paints a portrait of a man on the brink of self proclaimed failure and the exhaustion
speculate about future possibilities-makes pretty good sense. So, pack up your swag and lets get cracking. The three texts that show this are two poems by my mate Robert Frost “After Apple-Picking” and “Mending Wall” as well as the 2012 short film “Paperman” directed by John Kahrs (Pronounced cuss). “After Apple-Picking” by my mate Robert Frost reveals that discoveries can lead us to new worlds and values, stimulate new ideas and enable us to speculate about future possibilities. ________________.
Literary analysis of the poem “After Apple picking” by Robert Frost Eliani Hoyt Professor: Patricia Pallis ENG 102: Literature and Composition Introduction Robert Lee Frost can be considered as one of the best poets in the world of poetry. He was an American by birth and highly recognized as one of the realistic poet. He had lot of skills in rural life and colloquial English in American literature. He has written several poems on nature and the rural life mist of them have become realistic
The poem “After Apple Picking” by Robert Frost expresses the feelings of the narrator during and after the process of harvesting apples by showing the sustainability and ambition of human spirit. Frost’s poem is an accurate reflection of life and of human imperfection through the use of repetition, literal and figurative language and various symbols. The repeated use of the word “sleep” resonates throughout the poem and suggests that the narrator is experiencing fatigue and weariness, “I am drowsing
me; on the contrary, what is being described creates an image of delectation. “The corners of the earth were made lovely with trees…”(11) is said. When reading these words, the last thing on my mind would be hostile. Forces of death and blind fate picking random victims may have some truth to them, but fate is something that’s very disputed. “…Snatched up thirty men, smashed them unknowing in their beds…”(37) This may seem like fate had decided who was going to die, but it probably wasn’t so. Grendel
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