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"After Apple Picking"
"After Apple Picking" was one of Robert Frost's first poems he wrote and also one of the most popular. He wrote
his poems a lot about his own life experiences. He a lot of time felt great guilt about things that went on in his life. For
instance, in "After Apple Picking" he talks a lot about the mistakes and guilt he felt in his life. Throughout the poem Robert
Frost is using metaphors, to explain what he is thinking. He uses metaphors a lot to explain his thoughts throughout his poems.
He is comparing life to apple picking. It seems as though in the first two lines he may be talking about life and death
and comparing it to how apple picking goes, "My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree toward heaven still." He
is using heaven meaning once he passes this is where he wants to be. In other parts of the poem it seems as if he is making
the poems different times in someone's life, "Magnified apples appear and disappear." Meaning good times and bad times in
life come and go and you need to catch the good ones while they are still around. Another spot in the poem I notice this
going on is when he states, "There are ten thousand fruit to touch." Meaning there are thousands of things in life that come
our way but not all of them are good enough for us to stop and "touch." He is stating that apple picking is like your everyday
life; you are always going to be in the same routine.
This poem is defiantly taking place in a farm and the speaker is the farmer talking about his apple harvest through the
year. He seems as though the apple season is coming to a slow end. "And there's a barrel that I didn't fill," this is stating
that he is getting tired of the whole day after day or picking apples. The farmer then falls into a deep sleep where he has
a hard time thinking about what he is doing and he starts to in vision apples falling off the trees and since there are no
good anymore he will be sending them off to the cider- heap for some apple cider.
Not only does Robert Frost seems very depressed throughout the poem, but at times he is feels excited about what is coming
up in life that he has not experienced. For instances he uses metaphors like, "And there's a barrel I didn't fill" and What
form my dreaming was about to take. So we now in the end not only does he feel a lot of guilt for all that has come his way,
but he is excited to see what life still has to bring him.
In this poem he talks a lot about life and apple picking. You can tell he feels very depressed when he uses line such
as "As of no worth" and "Or just some human sleep." He seems to be very down through these times in the poems. He does a great
job writing a poem about apple picking and taking it back to real life and how he truly feels.
"Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening"
The poem "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening" is taking about the cold of winter and how it is peaceful.
In the line "My little horse must think it queer," is stating what the horse is thinking at that, stating that to horse is
confused of why they are stopped at that moment to look at the snowy woods. Then continuing to the next line he is stating
that the horse is shaking is head in confusion and is wondering if this must be some type of mistake. He is stating that although
he has a promise to keep, he still enjoys looking at the deep, dark, lovely woods.
The Lockless Door
The Poem "The Lockless Door" is describing a lonely man who is rarely visited. The one day there is a knock on his
door, which he has never heard before. He is excited about the knock and raises his hands in prayer. The knock came again
and ventured outside to see what it was, but nobody was there. So with that he cleared his lonely thoughts and once again
sat alone
Ghost House
This poem is about an old lonely house in which lots of memories have been collected. But the memories are
sometimes painful and he explains about his aching heart. He has become separated from his memories as a child and now cannot
bear to ever leave his bittersweet memories. He is lost without this place and has grown tired of the change. At the end of
the poem he explains how the town has changed and all the things that might have been.
Mending Wall
This poem is about a wall and how everything is enclosed. The wall actually is referring to a fence and all the nature
runs free in and out. It seems like he is stating that nature brings us all together and makes us jovial. It is happiness
that makes a good fence which in turn makes a good neighbor. The peace that a beautiful fenced yard can be therapeutic and
make happy folks of us all if we learn to embrace what is inside the fence.
Acquainted With the Night
This poem is about a man who embraces the night and all of its hidden beauty. But along with that beauty is a dark
side of which he describes as being sad and un willing to cooperate. He enjoys the still uncertainty of the night. He believes
that night is a time of relaxtion, which gives off an aura of silence. Then in the last line of the poem he states that these
are all the reasons he is acquainted with the night.
The Rose Family
This poem explains nature's truest beauty and all that it stands for. It uses metaphors for nature's ripe
fruits and all it has to offer. A rose is something beautiful and believes a rose is whatever you want it to be.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" all about seasons changing. It starts off in the first line stating that Nature is
turning green; which represents the gold meaning it is worth something for the new season to begin. In the next line it states
that the color green is the hardest "hue" to hold onto be fore it turns into a flower. But, the flower can not stay around
forever because it will eventually turn back into a leaf. When this happens the line that states "So Eden sank in grief,"
meaning that it sad the season is coming to an end. And in the final line it states that "Nothing gold can stay" meaning that
the season can not stay around forever.
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