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…showed last 75 words of 727 total…to the woodchuck's sleep and back to the initial balance of tones in 'sticking through a tree / Toward heaven still.' The poem is absorbed with 'states-between,' not only of winter sleep, but of all similar areas where real and unreal appear and disappear. 'After Apple-Picking' illustrates that 'the poet is a person consenting to dream of reality.' The 'consent' in this instance I believe is implied in the perfection of the form.