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Sunday, February 10, 2019

Human Imperfection Illustrated in Frosts Poem, After Apple Picking Ess

The poem After apple Picking by Robert Frost expresses the feelings of the narrator during and after the process of glean apples by showing the sustainability and ambition of human spirit. Frosts poem is an accurate reflection of life and of human imperfection through the wasting disease of repetition, typo and figurative language and various symbols.The repeated use of the account book sleep resonates throughout the poem and suggests that the narrator is experiencing fatigue and weariness, I am drowsing off / I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight / Upon my way of life to sleep before it fell / My instep arch not only keeps the smart / Woodchucks sleep (Frost 8-21) One interpretation of sleep is a final exam sleep due to sleeps association with winter in this piece. Because winter is most commonly associated to death of life, one may walk out that was the authors intended definition. However, a more logical and literal interpretation is the fact that the speaker is worn out and tired from pickax apples, which would relate to and explain some of the other figures of speech in the poem.T...

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