Literary Analysis Of After Apple-Picking By Robert Frost

From â€Å"After Apple-Picking† by Robert Frost Lines 1-8 â€Å"My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.† In the selected lines from Robert Frost’s â€Å"After Apple-Picking,† Frost creates the setting for the poem through time indicators, while also relaying the idea that this is not simply a poem about only apple picking, but it is metaphor about life and death where â€Å"apple picking† means collecting and life experiences. Line one states â€Å"My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through†¦show more content†¦The barrel that is not filled represents the capacity to do things before an end of some kind, and the space that could occupy the barrel is empty. In other words, the empty barrel represents missed opportunity: in the case of apple picking, it could be filled with apples, but is not at the end of the day. When this concept is related the life itself, it means that ones life could be filled with memories or life experiences, but at the end, they have not occurred. Then Frost tells us, â€Å"B eside it, and there may be two or three- Apples I didn’t pick upon some bough†(4-5). With these lines we get more information relating to the â€Å"barrel that is not filled,† which says that there is apples to be picked to fill the barrel but the narrator does not pick them. With the analogy relating the missed apple to missed life experiences, it can be inferred that there are two or three life experiences that have or will be missed. The word â€Å"bough†(5) literally means the main branch of a tree. The missed apples while apple picking were not missed because they were on a small limb; they were missed seemingly on purpose, because if they were on a small hidden limb it would be understandable if they were missed on accident. This tells us that the theoretical life experiences, represented as apples, were not small in nature but large. This is a representation of Frost’s feelings toward the ending of life before one is done experiencing normal life steps.Show MoreRelatedAfter Apple Picking, by Robert Frost1043 Words   |  5 Pagespaper is about â€Å"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 â€Å"After Apple Picking† as his article has more focus on an actual argument on what â€Å"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 . 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