After Apple Picking Analyst
Note the alliteration in the title: After A pple-Picking It is, as its title implies about work, time and change: about an earthly harvest and what follows. It explores the frustrations and rewards of labor, touching upon biblical texts. Its references to heaven and earth and its play on things fallen, lost and saved are anything but casual. There is an essay in the Robert Frost Review '96: "Looking through the Glass; Frost's AAP and Pauls 1 Corinthians". by David A Sanders of St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY. Fisher talks about two allusions there: Lewis Carroll "Through the Looking Glass" and 1 Corinthians 13, in which Paul contrasts our occluded earthly vision with that in the kingdom of God: "For now we see throught a glass, darkly: but then face to face". For Frost, the problems of mortal knowledge are those of mortality itself - the limitations from the loss of Eden. (After Apple-Picking in the Garden of Eden by the children of Adam and Eve - we are made to labor - just as described here, loss of grace, suffering and death). Also note the irony that we keep picking and harvesting the apples analogous to the labor we are made to do by the loss of the Garden of Eden, th
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Approximate Word count = 870
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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