picking apple

Title: picking apple
Category: Literature / English | Words: 300 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)

picking apple

Robert Frost: After Apple-Picking Born in San Francisco, Frost spent most of his adult life in rural New England and his laconic language and emphasis on individualism in his poetry reflect this region. He attended Dartmouth and Harvard but never earned a degree, and as a young man with growing family he attempted to write poetry while working a farm or teaching school. American editors rejected his submitted poems. With considerable pluck Frost moved his …showed first 75 words of 300 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 300 total…but with some regrets and mistakes. The reference to winter coming on feels like the presence of mortalilty. The question about what kind of sleep to anticipate suggests untroubled oblivion or possibly some kind of new life just as the woodchuck reawakens to fresh life in the spring after his hibernation. At what point does the poem begin to suggest something more than realistic description of an experience? What words hint at something symbolic developing?

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