Topic > Poems by Robert Frost - 1422

Robert Lee Frost is one of the most famous American poets of the century. Frost often uses the theme of nature throughout his poetry collections. Due to the time he spent and lived in New England, most of his work was influenced by some specific places in New England. Frost uses nature as a medium to express thoughts about life. In the poem "After the Apple Pick", Robert Frost has many symbols and allusions to embellish the meaning of the poem. Furthermore, “After-Apple Picking” is not literally about picking apples; it's about the daily life that human beings go on with. Like all of his other poems, this poem can be interpreted and read in more than one way. It tells of a dying old man who looks back on his life with regret for the factors/things he didn't accomplish. He has spent his entire life trying to achieve his goals, but realizes that he has no reason to achieve them. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker is standing on a very long ladder that seemingly points towards the sky, and is also looking at the apples he has not picked. The speaker's state of mind seems to be full of regret, "and there's a barrel next to it that I didn't fill, and there may be two or three apples that I didn't pick on some branch. (6) Although the character may seem confident and sure of his decision, the audience questions him as he looks at the barrel he has not completed. The apples that the speaker constantly refers to represent life experiences that the speaker has not noticed he shows no sign of regret, as he is “done with the apple picking now.” (6) He tells the audience that the life experiences the speaker once had are finally coming to… middle of paper…. of water as well as land, the audience can certainly imagine a terrified little boy caught between the two. The frost makes it seem like the ocean could destroy the entire world, an end-of-the-world scenario. The ways in which they describe this evil, that is that everything they touch will be destroyed. Importantly, Frost makes it very clear that the ocean is not really the "threat" as it might seem evil. Frost describes fear as a feeling that all people should feel and at the same time give a warning: "Someone had better be prepared for anger." (12) At the end of the poem, Frost leaves the audience with a question regarding the origin of the “destructive rage of the ocean.” (Saving a vote) Throughout these three poems, Robert Frost uses nature to interpret a deeper meaning of the poem and leave readers even more eager to continue reading and thinking on a deeper level.