After Apple Picking

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and the barrel and apples left on the tree represent things he regrets having or not having done during his lifetime. But in line six he says that he is “done with apple-picking now,” which sounds as if he’s saying that what’s done is done and he must accept it. It is almost as if he is having a conflict within himself as to whether he should be content with his life or not.
The “sleep” that the speaker mentions constantly throughout the poem represents death. When he says, “Essence of winter sleep is on the night,” he is recognizing his own mortality. In the last three lines he wonders whether his sleep will be a long sleep like that of the woodchuck or “just some human sleep.” He is wondering if he is going to die soon.
The more Biblical interpretation identifies with the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The apples from the Tree of Knowledge were the fruit that Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat, yet they still did and this conveys a feeling of great tension ...

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