After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost: Analysis and Interpretation

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“After Apple-Picking” is one of Frost’s most unsettling poems, and that unsettling quality comes from what he doesn’t say. Published in 1914, it starts straightforward enough: tired farmer finishes harvesting apples, gets drowsy, heads toward sleep. But that sleep feels wrong somehow. Too heavy, too final. By the end you’re not sure if the speaker … Read more