Frost's poetry reflects life in New England and the language he uses is also from that region. Although Frost concentrates on ordinary subject matter, he includes a wide range of emotions. His poems often shift dramatically from humorous tones to tragic ones. Most of his poetry is concerned with how people interact with their environment. Frost saw the beauty of nature, he also saws it dangers. He often wrote in the standard meter of blank verse, but often ran the sentences over several lines. Robert Frost is a lyric poet. Frost disliked free verse, and instead used traditional metrical and rhythmical schemes ("Frost"). His use of nature tends to be symbolic.

attitude toward sleep is complicated; you don't know if he is just tired and will wake up refreshed the next morning, or if it will be a long sleep like in

The poem tells of a harvest that has come to perfection and beyond. "I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass I skimmed from the drinking trough." The speaker is in a dreamy state of mind. Frost demonstrates how quickly and harshly the cold seems to come on after the apples are stripped away. The apples are removed before any animals are able to eat them. This upsets the harmony between man and nature. All the fallen apples are discarded into the cider pile. "Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall." The speaker values his

Frost takes an ordinary experience and turns it into a meditative moment. From Frost's perspective, "free verse is like playing tennis with the net down (Meyer 1000)." Frost created moving lyric poems that reveal personal thoughts of the speaker. The language in his poems appears casual and even rambling, but it's actually Frost's poetic creation. Everything said throughout the poem comes to the reader in repetition and rhymes. "After Apple-Picking" is so vivid a memory of experience that the reader absorbs it phys

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