The poem After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost is a poem that
             illustrates implicitly the process of human life in the worldâ€"that is life
             begun, lived through hardships and failures, and eventually ended with
             death. These primary themes in the poem, namely life, failure, and death,
             are narrated and given meaningful interpretations using symbolism.
             Utilizing symbolism as representations of these themes is embodied by the
             act of apple-picking, apples, the coming of winter, and sleep.
             Robert Frost, famous American poet of the 19th and 20th century
             American poetry, was known for his traditional, yet revolutionary,
             composition and creation of poems. Frost's poetry style is categorized to
             be mainly traditional, centering on themes that depict rural life and
             individual musings of an individual who has been nurtured and lived close
             to nature. Evidently, the poet's style reflects the traditional and rustic
             feel of rural life. Nevertheless, despite the seemingly mundane events and
             situations that he uses to depict rural life and living, Frost creates and
             develops a fresh look' at traditional poetry. Rural life becomes a
             privilege for the readers, rural living becomes an ideal where life becomes
             meaningful and lived to the fullest; the mundane becomes an extraordinary
             event or situation. These transitions are apparent in the poem After Apple-
             Picking, achieved by adopting the techniques of using traditional rhyming
             schemes in poetry and symbolism. This paper provides a detailed analysis
             and interpretations of Frost's philosophical musings about life, failure,
             and deathâ€"primary themes centered on the by the speaker (a farmer, Frost
             The first stanza of the poem illustrates in symbolic terms the kind
             of life the farmer had lived as an "apple-picker." Apple-picking as an
             event is a symbolic representation of life itself, which may be constru...