After Apple Picking
Robert Fross, author of the poem, describes the path of a person between life and death. Fross mentions different thoughts and memories that are received by the speaker in this phase. From them, he highlights "Choices in life", or "Apple-Picking", and explains how they influence not only one's life, but more intriguing, one's death.As the poem starts, the author introduces a person that is starting to die("My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree (line 1) Toward heaven still (line 2)"). Fross uses a two-headed ladder to illustrate a decision one supposedly makes at the begging of death's; choosing heaven or hell.As the speaker travels away, memories arrive to his mind, remanding him of the choices/opportunities that he did or nor cons
To finish, the Robert Fross compares "Sleep" (path between life and death as explained in the poem) with the life of a woodchuck; a rodent mammal of about 50 cm long, with dense pelage, thick head and small ears, that lives the high forests of Europe and that sleeps all winter. Robert Fross, includes lines 14 through 17 , three riming verses in the poem, to explicate the speaker's emotions as he realizes that the decisions in his past life where not the finest. "But I was wellUpon my way to sleep before it fell 15And I could tell"Between lines 17 and 26 Fross keeps describing the choices that the speaker considered to have in haven in distinctive ways. Among his dizziness, he realizes that the decisions in his life did not satisfy him; he describes his previous world (resultant of his decisions) as "a world of hoary grass"(line 12). Then, when reaching line 27, we meet with the speakers emotional reactions for the second time. Differently, this means that the guy is getting bored/dizzy of getting images over and over. ider in the past, so he could make superior decisions for his new "life"(lines 3 and 4). "For I have had too muchOf apple-picking: I am overtiredOf the great harvest I my self desired. He created someone who will fail every day, every year, every life and every death. By making this comparison we can tell that the speaker believes in reincarnation, because a woodchuck sleeps ("dies") during winter and wakes up ("reincarnates") after the season. There were a thousand fruit to touch" 30The poet is saying that the speaker has a similar attitude to the one in line 6; he is again desperate. Robert Fross created along this poem a character with a mediocre mind, an individual who thinks has infinite lives to succeed. His desperation is making him give up. But he did give up this time; his attitude made him select one choice from the "pile" ("Went surely to the cider-apple heap" (line 35)).
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