Friday, May 31, 2019
Human Imperfection Illustrated in Frosts Poem, After Apple Picking Ess
The poem After Apple Picking by Robert Frost expresses the feelings of the narrator during and after the exhibit of harvesting apples by showing the sustainability and ambition of human spirit. Frosts poem is an accurate reflection of life and of human imperfection through the usage of repetition, literal and figurative language and various symbols.The repeated use of the word log Zs resonates throughout the poem and suggests that the narrator is experiencing fatigue and weariness, I am nap off / I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / Upon my way to sleep before it fell / My instep arch not only keeps the ache / Woodchucks sleep (Frost 8-21) One interpretation of sleep is a final sleep due to sleeps association with winter in this piece. Because winter is most usually associated to death of life, one may assume that was the authors intended definition. However, a more logical and literal interpretation is the fact that the speaker is worn out and tired from picking apples , which would relate to and explain some of the other figures of speech in the poem.T...
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