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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.

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After Apple-Picking

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  1. After Apple-Picking By: Wyatt Fulghum, Elikem Dorbu

  2. 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.

  3. http://tinyurl.com/986pg32

  4. Reading of poem

  5. WHAT DOES THE TITLE accomplish? • Sets up time in speaker’s life • Sets up the time of day • Describes the job of the speaker

  6. 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

  7. Structure of poem pt.2 • Iambic (1-31) • Pentameter • varying with diameter (1st line), and hexameter: (2nd line) • Spondee at line 32: “For All”

  8. 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

  9. tone • Thoughtful, contemplative atmosphere • Dreary, dreamy, in and out • Achieved through the lack of order and questioning of life

  10. Imagery • Visual • Line 18, Line 20 • Feeling/Touch • Line 21, 34 • Olfactory (Smell) • Line 8 • Moving • Line 23 • Hearing • Line 25-26

  11. http://tinyurl.com/9skepar

  12. ALLUSION • Line 1: “long two-pointed ladder…” • Reference to Jacob’s Ladder (Genesis 28: 10-19) • Line 31-36 • Fall of Man (Genesis 3)

  13. http://tinyurl.com/8z97u4p

  14. Central Ideas or Themes • Apples are opportunity • Fulfilled, Unfulfilled, Failed • Apple-picking represents a lifetime (Extended Metaphor) • Learning from past mistakes • Human Sleep/Hibernation

  15. Human Sleep or Hibernation • Speaker’s death, simply relief from apple-picking • If Death: Afterlife or no afterlife • Lines 38-42

  16. Why is the poem still relevant today? • Questions organized religion and the afterlife • Presents a reconsideration of life and what it entails

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