“After Apple-Picking” is a poem by Robert Frost that delves into the themes of life, mortality, and the choices we make. The speaker, exhausted after a day of apple picking, reflects on the tasks at hand, experiences a mix of reality and dream, and contemplates the nature of existence. Read More English Summaries.
After Apple-Picking Summary
After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost Introduction
The poet gives his reflections on boredom and drudgery in the aftermath of the task of picking apples. The apple picker has got exhausted. He is unable to enjoy his life amid the pristine beauty of nature.
After Apple-Picking Summary in English
The poet feels tired of apple picking. Two-three apples are still left. He is getting sleepy. The essence of apple makes him intoxicated. A sense of strangeness is still hovering over his mind. He can’t rub it off from his sight. He is getting uncomfortable. In the morning, he skimmed the apple in a long narrow container. The hoary grass melted away. The magnified apples appear and disappear. The reddish apples look clear. The poet feels pain. There is a pressure on fun of load of the apple-picking.
He is overtired of the great harvest, he himself desired. There are still ten thousand fruits to be touched. He tries to hold the fruit in his hand, not to drop it bn the ground, or to let it crack. He makes a heap of the fruits. It is of no importance here to think what troublesome sleep the poet had and what discomfort he suffers. He here talks of an animal called woodchuck who enjoys long sleep. The poet wishes if he were like that.