After Apple Picking, by Robert Frost - 1043 Words

This paper is about â€Å"After Apple Picking,† by Robert Frost, from the perspectives of Carl Phillips and Priscilla Paton. I would like to focus more on Carl Phillips discussion of â€Å"After Apple Picking† as his article has more focus on an actual argument on what â€Å"After Apple Picking† is about compared to Paton’s article which is more about how Frost went about writing his poems though his usage of metaphors and vague colloquialisms . Neither article was solely about â€Å"After Apple Picking,† but both had a few good observations and comments about the poem. Phillips main observation, and argument, was that â€Å"After Apple Picking† was about restlessness and ambition. â€Å"It’s a poem of restlessness, the restlessness of an ambition that spurs us towards†¦show more content†¦In contrast, Phillips states animal sleep is different because the trouble of human sleep â€Å"is presumably not the experience of a woo dchuck, or of any other animal that leads a life of pure instinct without the ability to reason, at least in the human terms in which we think of reasoning† (Phillips 135). I agree with Phillips’ argument that â€Å"After Apple Picking† is about restlessness and ambition. The apple picker is never satisfied because he can’t pick every apple and eventually becomes self-aware in his pursuit of perfection that he will never be satisfied because he will not be able to save every apple from the cider heap. His ambition for a great harvest makes him restless and eventually the apple picker becomes tired of apple picking, probably due to his failure to reach his unobtainable goal. The ending of â€Å"After Apple Picking† ties in well with the uncertainty that Phillips spent so much time discussing earlier in his article. The apple picker is unsure of what sleep awaits him, which bothers him and causes him distress. The fear of not knowing, and being unable to draw stable conclusions about the near future causes the apple picker to pause and think about possibilities of the sleep that awaits him. Even the style of â€Å"After Apple Picking† is reminiscent of uncertainty and restlessness. Paton wrote a whole article on how Frost went about writing his poems and one of her key observations was that Frost liked toShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of After Apple Picking By Robert Frost1381 Words   |  6 Pagesâ€Å"After Apple-Picking† is an early work by Robert Frost. 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