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Poet: Robert Frost (Robert Frost Art)
Poem: 4.
After Apple-Picking
Volume: North of Boston
Year: Published/Written in 1914
Poem of the Day:
Apr 26 2003
Comment 36 of 36, added on October 23rd, 2009 at 3:38 AM.
I thought that this poem was about the ending of life, and how Robert Frost was using apples to symbolize his choices in life, and the unfilled barrels symbolize his unfulfilled dreams. His line "I am overtired (of apple-picking)" seems to say that the speaker is tired of life, and is waiting for his death. The poem itself paints a very simple picture, similar to Robert Frost's poems, it also suggests a deeper meaning than what the words of his poem actually mean.
Becca from Canada
Comment 35 of 36, added on June 14th, 2009 at 10:42 PM.
I've read through all notes possible on the poem After Apple-picking. And there is one stanza that anyone is yet to analysis.
and that is -
“For all,
That struck the Earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap,
As of no worth”.
I believe each apple symbolises a life and that if i apple has fallen (someone has failed) then they are as no worth and we all continue with our lifes.
Does anyone else have any other analysis of this stanza?
nicole from Australia
Comment 34 of 36, added on April 29th, 2009 at 11:38 PM.
i iked this poem b coz it has a good moral in it from which we can learn a lot...i woud like to say that i really liked the way the port related the lader and heaven and the way he narrates the poem is really fantastic .Lastly i would like to conclude by saying his poems give a good theme...........
Nandini from India
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I thought that this poem was about the ending of life, and how Robert Frost was using apples to symbolize his choices in life, and the unfilled barrels symbolize his unfulfilled dreams. His line "I am overtired (of apple-picking)" seems to say that the speaker is tired of life, and is waiting for his death. The poem itself paints a very simple picture, similar to Robert Frost's poems, it also suggests a deeper meaning than what the words of his poem actually mean.
Becca from Canada