After Apple-Picking
After Apple-Picking. By: Wyatt Fulghum , Elikem Dorbu. Background Info: Frost. Born in 1874; Died in 1963 Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and spoke at Kennedy inauguration. North of Boston published in 1914 in England Felt homesick for New England and returned in 1915.
After Apple-Picking
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After Apple-Picking By: Wyatt Fulghum, Elikem Dorbu
Background Info: Frost • Born in 1874; Died in 1963 • Winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and spoke at Kennedy inauguration. • North of Boston published in 1914 in England • Felt homesick for New England and returned in 1915.
WHAT DOES THE TITLE accomplish? • Sets up time in speaker’s life • Sets up the time of day • Describes the job of the speaker
Structure of poem pt.1 • Rhyme scheme is regular- transitions to highly irregular • 1-6: abbacc • 7-12: dedfef • 13-16:ghhh • 17-22: gijigkj • No set rhyme scheme
Structure of poem pt.2 • Iambic (1-31) • Pentameter • varying with diameter (1st line), and hexameter: (2nd line) • Spondee at line 32: “For All”
Setting • Setting is in the evening of an approaching winter, or otherwise late fall • Ex: Line 7, 10 • End of fall in the New England region • Line 25
tone • Thoughtful, contemplative atmosphere • Dreary, dreamy, in and out • Achieved through the lack of order and questioning of life
Imagery • Visual • Line 18, Line 20 • Feeling/Touch • Line 21, 34 • Olfactory (Smell) • Line 8 • Moving • Line 23 • Hearing • Line 25-26
ALLUSION • Line 1: “long two-pointed ladder…” • Reference to Jacob’s Ladder (Genesis 28: 10-19) • Line 31-36 • Fall of Man (Genesis 3)
Central Ideas or Themes • Apples are opportunity • Fulfilled, Unfulfilled, Failed • Apple-picking represents a lifetime (Extended Metaphor) • Learning from past mistakes • Human Sleep/Hibernation
Human Sleep or Hibernation • Speaker’s death, simply relief from apple-picking • If Death: Afterlife or no afterlife • Lines 38-42
Why is the poem still relevant today? • Questions organized religion and the afterlife • Presents a reconsideration of life and what it entails