Kristina Mossman
Mr. Hall
English 102
9/14/14
A Poem that Simulates an Event in my Life
What do kids in the summer time do for fun? Maybe go to the apple orchard and pick some apples? Some of Frost's poems often spark comparison to those of the Romantic poets a hundred years earlier (Pg. 119). The poet Robert Frost writes about apple picking and how tiring it is. I experienced the same effect from apple picking when my aunt use to take me as a young child.
In the beginning of his poem, the speaker describes how it feels to be up on the ladder in the tree:
My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Besides it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. (pg. 123)
The speaker in the poem gives us a visual that she is up in the tree far from the ground.
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