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“ After Apple Picking ” Summary I placed my long two-legged ladder on a tree pointing to the sky and also placed an empty barrel next to it. There are probably a few apples left in some branches that I didn't pick, but I'm not picking apples anymore. The night started to feel like winter and I could smell like apples. I'm feeling sleepy. I couldn’t stop painting the strange image I saw while looking at the ice cubes picked up from the water twenty this morning and looked at the icy grass. It started to melt and I dropped it, but before it fell to the ground I was already starting to fall asleep and I knew what kind of dreams I was carrying: the apples were going in and out of the house, some showing their tops and others the opposite end. Shows. I can see every speck of brown and red. The arch of my foot still hurts and in reality, I still feel the pressure of the ladder range. I can still feel the ladder moving a bit as the branches of the apple tree bend. I hear the sound of understanding over the weight of the apples under the weight of the lining. I'm sick of picking apples. I am very tired, although I wanted this great harvest. I could slowly pick a few thousand apples and make sure they didn’t fall to the ground. Any apples that touched the ground, even those that did not have wounds or debris as a result of the fall, were considered useless and suitable only for cedar. If I don't sleep, you can already see why I'm getting restless sleep. If Woodchuck hadn't hibernated already in the winter, he could have told me that sleep seemed to me like his hibernation, or that it was like a regular old man's sleep. Robert Frost’s poem “After the Apple-Picking” is a piece of much undeniable dreamy feeling due to the heavy images of sleep and rest. A closer look at the poem reveals that these forty lines actually work with a strong attitude toward death, but the use of the speaker's melody hides them creatively for the first half of the poem. The peaceful melody at the beginning of this poem brightly reflects the reader's attention from the impending death of the speaker, but it soon turns into a strong feeling of bitterness. This sense of peace is found in the speaker's satisfaction at his impending death. The poem begins with a picture of a ladder pointing to heaven. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "heaven" is the experience of a place, state, or supreme happiness ("heaven"). Theologically, “heaven” is also a place of bliss for those who ascend after death. It is noteworthy that the speaker specifically chose the word "heaven" instead of "hell" to express the latter image. The ladder here serves as the speaker’s means of travel to heaven. One must note that the ladder "clings to the tree" (1) as it penetrates or reaches the earth and the last tangible part of life. This ascending figure strongly suggests that the speaker is satisfied with his death but his reflection in the memory of the dawn makes a stronger case for the speaker's sense of peace. He reminded me of a world of grass hidden in pieces of ice. "Hoari" refers to both white and old age according to the Oxford English Dictionary. This image of the narrator has created a sense of peace in the speaker by making the reader more aware of the search for a piece of ice and the white sight. The color "white" is most related to the piece but works better here because of the other meaning of "hori"; Aging. Due to the aforesaid summary of death, the speaker is clearly old. This image of the speaker is looking through a kind of glass and white acts as an epiphany for him. He is not fearing death even though he was before the incident. The reader knows that he is feeling comfortable now because the speaker just lets the ice melt and break to the ground while commenting “but I was fine” (14). With the help of this line the speaker is advising, yes breaking ice on the ground can upset him but it is not that it is not in peace. After Apple Picking Analysis It is clear from a close examination of this poem that the speaker uses sleep as a metaphor for death as a way to express his feelings of peace. There are plenty of specific words and phrases for sleeping in the first half of this piece, both literally and the way they sound. In the seventh line the speaker writes that "the essence of winter sleep is at night" ()). Winter here refers to the end or death as well as night, but it is important to note the large number of words that use "s" as a phonetic metaphor for sleep, such as onomonopia, "jades". The speaker uses the words "scent", "apple", "drawing", "weirdness", "glass" and "grass" in the first thirteen lines of the poem to introduce sleepless peace. Apparently the speaker's purpose here is to replicate a word similar to the phonetic "zzz". With these words we are given a “s” word that allows for creative choices and still allows us to maintain accents that are not harsh or harsh. The speaker also very well uses a rhyme scheme of “good”, “read”, and “say” at the end of the lines fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen, respectively, as a kind of lorry in that poem. All of these elements collectively work in the guise of death while holding the reader in the irresistible sense of peace. After following these images, which are described in a calm tone, the poem suddenly begins to sway on the 23-line staircase. The speaker writes that he feels that "the ladder is shaking like a bend" (23) and with it the reader is given a feeling of uncertainty. It’s as if the speaker is trembling with the ladder of the future and he can fall at any moment; Perhaps he is not ascending to heaven, as he believed. This concept can be further explained by the word in lines 24-25 with vibrations from the underground bin. Here the speaker creates a stark contrast to the opening image of the staircase poem through the tree. The underground bin serves as the overall synonym of heaven mentioned at the beginning of this piece to define two severely different melodies. The words jogging are indicative of anxiety and present an idea that the speaker has not previously described in the poem. A loud noise would surely wake him up and he would say to the speaker, "I feel extra" (26). Note the difference between this statement and many examples of drowsiness and excitement for sleeping in the first half of the poem. The statement reads in such a way that the narrator is tired, weak or even annoyed. He is not satisfied with death now, he is bitter. This tone switch chooses preferences with the sound of the speaker. In the first half of the poem, the word "shot" predominates emotion and creates a feeling of peace and comfort, but here the speaker is harsh, biting, "excessive", "rattling" and "trouble". There are offensive negative expressions with literal meanings. And it leads to the context in which these words are used. The narrator has abandoned his epiphany, or forgotten it, and is now annoyingly reflecting the harsh, laborious behavior of examining each apple; He has done every hard work in his life. But how does this speaker request to change this abrupt place to tone? He travels without any explanation from the seemingly relaxed mood of boredom. The swing of the ladder in line 23 can reveal the answer. Perhaps the speaker actually fell from the top of the stairs and broke like "ten thousand fruits" (30) which rang in the basement box. Each "T" word will then lead the speaker down to its branch. It is, however, merely a theory which does not contain sufficient evidence within the poem as to confirm such assumptions. Alas, it is very likely that swinging the ladder only exposes the narrator's fear of being remembered, and it encourages these bitter feelings that express the opposite of this kind of nature. After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking After Apple Picking Facebook

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