Analysis of Robert Frost's "After Apple Picking" and "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".

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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom,"- Robert Frost. This one simple quote highlights the foundation of Frost's poems. It hits the target. Each of Frost's poems indeed begin with "delight", a man picking apples, a man riding his horse or a man walking down a road. However, Frost is able to find the extraordinary in the most conventional situations, leaving the audience pondering and contemplating life's journeys. Frost explores the 'extraordinary' through the themes of mystery and human limitation.

At the end of our lives, we will feel dissatisfaction and regret. After reading After Apple Picking, we may agree with this statement. However, Frost's ambiguous tone only hints at this morbid outcome, never truly confirming our suspicions. The persona himself is left wondering, "whatever sleep it is." Is it a "long sleep", "or just some human sleep." He wonders if he is just hibernating, like the woodchuck, but in the end, weariness overcomes suspicion and the audience is left wondering. Through use of seasonal imagery, the persona foreshadows his death, with reference to winter being made throughout the poem. The persona also states that when he saw his reflection in the "drinking trough" the reflection