After Apple-Picking

Poetry | Robert Frost

After Apple Picking Literary Device

Figures of Speech:

  • Metaphor: The ladder reaching “toward heaven” stands for human dreams and spiritual aims.
  • Symbolism: Apples symbolize life, work, and rewards. The sleep symbolizes death or eternal rest.
  • Imagery: Frost creates clear pictures, like “magnified apples” and “essence of winter sleep,” that appeal to the senses.
  • Personification: The sleep and season seem alive, acting with human calmness and purpose.
  • Alliteration: Phrases like “apple-picking” and “essence of winter sleep” repeat sounds for rhythm and beauty. 
 

Moral Message:

  • Life is full of work and dreams.
  • But every work must end, and rest must come.
    

 

 

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