Poetry is a very special literary text; it is not simply about the techniques and language used by the poet, rather its moral meaning. In Robert Frost's Mending Wall, and After Apple picking, he ponders upon everyday experiences such as the harvesting of apples. Frost explores new perspectives on the simple concept of harvesting apples, and how it can help us to treasure every single day of our lives. Mending wall however conveys a different perspective of everyday experiences, Frost questions why barriers, both emotional and physical are erected between two opposing sides, he also questions whether he was "walling in or walling out."
             Although every single day of one's life appears to be the same, there are always slight changes. Everyday, new challenges arises, opportunities opening and disappearing. Frost symbolises the lost opportunities with the "barrels that I didn't fill...beside it, two or three apples I didn't pick upon some bough." One should always treasure every moment of life, once the opportunity has passed, one cannot travel back in time to take such opportunities. Not only do opportunities pass in time, but one's age and experience of life also drift away. As the persona stares through the "pane of glass," he only sees a drinking trough." By "blossom end and stem end," some experiences he can clearly reflect upon clearly, he examines each experience and "russet" on the skin of the apple as well as any bruises upon the apple. The russet and bruises on the apple symbolized lost opportunities.
             The persona's reflection upon his experience is of great sorrow, or regret. "I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass," he stares at the pane of glass, as he sees the "drinking trough," the personal realizes that he his hoary, or gray with age. His visions of life, "there were
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