After Apple-Picking Note the alliteration in the title: After A pple-Picking It is, as its title implies about work, time and change: about an earthly harvest and what follows. It explores the frustrations and rewards of labor, touching upon biblical texts. Its references to heaven and earth and its play on things fallen, lost and saved are anything but casual. There is an essay in the Robert Frost Review '96: "Looking through the Glass; Frost's …showed first 75 words of 872 total…

…showed last 75 words of 872 total…- there are many. Its about labor, harvesting, desiring - what ? :apples, could be anything Its about life all the things we do and how it makes us feel. Going to school and taking all these courses is kind of like picking apples, isn't it? Now there's a great analogy! If I were you I'd pick one level and stick with it. You should read this poem over and over until it sticks on you.