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 consider in the past, so he could make superior decisions for his new "life"(lines 3 and 4).But many thoughts seem to reach the character's mind, seeing that Fross wrote "But I am done with apple-picking now" (line 6), meaning that the speaker is desperate of so many decisions that need to be made in one's existence. His desperation is making him give up.
             Anyway, the speaker keeps receiving thoughts and memories, which Fross mentions as to make him drowse (line 7). Differently, this means that the guy is getting bored/dizzy of getting images over and over. 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).
             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.
             Upon my way to sleep before it fell 15
             Between lines 17 and 26 Fross keeps describing the choices that the
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