After Apple-Picking

In this poem I think Frost is talking about how time is passing by fast and how we should use every minute we have andd make the most of it. The idea of apple picking is setting the season to summer and when he is looking out the window it is winter time. The tree can symbolize the tree of life. The apples can symbolize all the opportunities life gives us. The empty barrel symbolizes how the reader did not make the most out of what he was given. The apples on the ground show that it was not hard to use and take in all opportunities that were pretty much handed to the reader. In the winter time he wishes there were more opportunities for him and is dreaming about the apples in the summertime. As the ladder begins to sway and apples are coming faster he is getting older and it is talking about how life throws so much at you at once. "Lift down, and not let fall" the reader is telling to pick off the fruit and don't let it fall which means to live life to the fullest and get everything you can out of it. "No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble, went surely to the cider-apple heap," this is saying that no matter how big, small, or bad an opportunity you can still make the best out of it. Woodchucks sleep all through winter. The reader compares human sleep to woodchuck sleep. This could be saying how every winter he just keeps waiting for more and more apples and can't wait for the summer and wishes he could sleep through winter.