"After Apple-Picking" paints the picture of a chilly evening near the beginning of winter. The speaker has just finished picking apples for that year's harvest, his ladder still leaning against the tree. There are very few apples left on the tree and one of his baskets isn't quite full. His feet hurt from standing on the ladder for too long and the smell of apples is everywhere. He is tired and starts to drift off into sleep.

The "sleep" that the speaker mentions constantly throughout the poem represents death. When he says, "Essence of winter sleep is on the night," he is recognizing his own mortality. In the last three lines he wonders whether his sleep will be a long sleep like that of the woodchuck or "just some human sleep." He is wondering if he is going to die soon.

In line nine the speaker says that he "cannot rub the strangeness" from his sight. This could represent the change in perception Adam and Eve underwent that was, no doubt, strange to them. There was no way they could go back to the way they had seen things before they took the apple from the Tree of Knowledge. In lines 27 - 29 also, the speaker says that he has "had too much" and is "overtired of the great harvest" he desired. Once Adam and Eve had eaten and gained all the knowledge they had wanted, they soon wished they hadn't. In line 33 the apples that "struck the earth" represent Adam and Eve's fa

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Approximate Word count = 649
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)