Robert Fross, author of the poem, describes the path of a person between life and death. Fross mentions different thoughts and memories that are received by the speaker in this phase. From them, he highlights "Choices in life", or "Apple-Picking", and explains how they influence not only one's life, but more intriguing, one's death.
As the poem starts, the author introduces a person that is starting to die("My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree (line 1) Toward heaven still (line 2)"). Fross uses a two-headed ladder to illustrate a decision one supposedly makes at the begging of death's; choosing heaven or hell.
As the speaker travels away, memories arrive to his mind, remanding him of the choices/opportunities that he did or nor cons
Robert Fross created along this poem a character with a mediocre mind, an individual who thinks has infinite lives to succeed. He created someone who will fail every day, every year, every life and every death.
ider in the past, so he could make superior decisions for his new "life"(lines 3 and 4).But many thoughts seem to reach the character's mind, seeing that Fross wrote "But I am done with apple-picking now" (line 6), meaning that the speaker is desperate of so many decisions that need to be made in one's existence. His desperation is making him give up.
To finish, the Robert Fross compares "Sleep" (path between life and death as explained in the poem) with the life of a woodchuck; a rodent mammal of about 50 cm long, with dense pelage, thick head and small ears, t
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