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After Apple Picking by Robert Frost | Analysis
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2024
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ALERT ALERT Make sure you have actually read this poem in its entirety before you watch this!! Seriously, the amount of times I have sat down to study a poem and have missed a really obvious connection simply because I could be bothered to refresh my memory on it beforehand. Read the poem. READ THE POEM. Here, I'll even give you a link to it to so you can't make any more excuses. Mwahaha! www.poetryfoundation.org/poem... ALERT FADES AWAY
OK, just realised that evil laugh made it look like I was sending you to virus or something. Ah, you've rumbled me! All we study-video-makers are secretly evil geniuses trying to lure you into debt with our links to poems! Stand and deliver! Your books or your life!
Just kidding, it really is just a boring link to a Robert Frost poem. (a nerd can dream)
Rrrright, now that alert's out the way, can we just bask in how much more space I have to write here than in the channel description? Ahhhh. Whoever invented character limits was clearly not an English student, am I right? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Sorry, back to business. This video is my analysis of Robert Frost's poem 'After Apple Picking'. If you're anything like me you struggled with this poem initially. Actually that's true of me and all poems... but anyway. In the process of making this powerpoint I grew to really like this one and the message it's trying to communicate. Maybe I'm a pessimist at heart. Or maybe you think the poem means something entirely different to my interpretation - if so, please let me know in the comments! I would looooove to hear it. Remember, there's no "right" in English Lit, there's only "write".
Sorry, I had to.
What else is there? Oh yeah, this was my first powerpoint about a poem so sorry if I sound a bit shy or I'm not really getting into the analysis in the narration. I've never really narrated anything before... But I've made a couple more since this and trust me, I'm improving. Who knew English Lit could teach you public speaking skills?! (Sorry also if it's ridiculously quiet, my microphone sort of sucks. Try using headphones.)
I was inspired to make this, and got a lot of insight into the poem from this awesome video: • After Apple-picking An... Honestly I get most of my information about these poems online, so yay for the internet! It was a while ago that I studied this, so I can't point you to many specific sites (I will make sure to do so for future poems!) except I do remember using Shmoop. Great site Shmoop. Go show 'em some love: www.shmoop.com/after-apple-pi...
So yeah, I guess that's all I have to say. I really hope this video was helpful to you. If you have any questions about it, I'll definitely attempt to answer and we can scratch our heads over the mind-boggling invention that is poetry together. Looking forward to it. ;)
Actually there's one more thing. This video does not have closed captions but if you would like them please don't hesitate to drop me a comment below, and I will definitely add some. I know that many of my fellow readers, writers, students and general nerds are hearing impaired, Deaf, or maybe just are struggling keeping up with my narration. I want to be as inclusive as I can, so seriously, if you want CC, I would be happy to add it. The only reason I haven't already is because making these powerpoints, recording the narration, editing the whole thing, watching it over and uploading take up a lot of my study time and I don't want to pile on top of that if it's not befitting anyone. But, again, if you want them, do not feel guilty for asking! If you a person with a disability you are not a drain on anyone's time or money. You are as worthy as anyone else of the opportunity to listen to some random girl ramble about some dead dude dreaming about apples.
OK, I've wasted enough of your day now. Hope you enjoy the rest of it!
This was one of the texts I could choose to write a short essay on for my Survey of American Lit course. I listened to an audio reading of this poem and still could not understand it. I appreciate you taking the time to break this poem down and help me understand it a little bit better so I can write my response. Great video! 😊
To sleep, perchance to dream--aye, there's the... I cannot RUB the strangeness from my sight...
Your commentary was really insightful! I could've never realized that Jacob's Ladder reference on my own! Thank you and hope you continue making such videos!
Haha neither could I I found it online somewhere - we’re all helping eachother out
Used to hate this poem, but now I hate it less :)) Thanks for bringing some order into the chaos that is A level English Lit!!
Amazing, thank you!
AFTER APPLE-PICKING
ANNOTATIONS
L. 7. Essence of winter sleep-the environment is full of the intoxicating scent of apples. L. 9. I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight-as the apple-picker begins to drowse away, the familiar and the common begins to assume the dimensions of unfamiliarity and strangeness. He cannot rub or wipe off this film of strangeness from his eyes. L. 11. I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough--the ice which he had collected in the morning from the surface of drinking water in a trough, which is a long narrow vessel for watering animals. L. 12. Hoary grass-grass covered with frost or snow. In his drowsy haze, things appear new, strange and unfamiliar as they had appeared to him when he looked at them through the ice he had collected that morning. L. 20. Fleck of russet- every bit or spot of reddish brown colour on the apples. L. 21. Instep arch-the prominent upper part of the human foot near its junction with the leg. L. 34. Spiked with stubble--pierced or bruised with some stubble, still standing in the field. L. 38. Whatever sleep it is-a touch of mystery is imparted to the entire aura. The apple-picker is not sure whether his sleep is the ordinary sleep of human beings, or the long winter hibernation of creatures of nature like the woodchuck.
(B) EXPLANATIONS WITH CRITICAL COMMENTS
L1. 1-5 My long....some bough-The dramatic setting and initial commitment in tone is remarkable. “Pre-sleep and sleepy reminiscence of the day, condition all that is said and the speaker's first words show what form his dreamy talk will take.".
L. 6. But I am....apple-picking now-The apple-picker is thoroughly tired and bored with apple picking. Fatigue and boredom gas he decides that he will have nothing to do with apple-picking.
L. 7. Essence of winter sleep-The entire atmosphere is laden with sleepiness.
L. 18. Magnified apples-Though the apple-picker is seeing the apples against the sky with daylight accuracy and clarity, they appear to be magnified and enlarged. For him, they stand out as symbols for great dream like spheres.
L. 19. Stem end and blossom end-This repetitious way of describing the apples over and over again helps in blurring the precise details and giving the whole set up a metaphoric dimension.
L. 30. There were....to touch- This line instantly brings to mind the line in The Daffodils- 'Ten thousand saw I at a glance.'
L. 40-41. The wood chuck......long sleep-This is the closing metaphor of the poem, and as such, it adds to the strangeness of 'winter sleep' by bringing in the non-human death-like sleep of hibernation.
L. 42. Or just some human sleep-“The poem is absorbed with states between not only of winter sleep, but of all similar areas where real and unreal appear and disappear. After Apple-Picking illustrates exactly Santayana's remark, that the artist is a person consenting to dream of reality. The consent in this instance is implied in the perfection of the form."
EXPLANATIONS WITH REFERENCE TO CONTEXT
L. 7-12. Essence of winter....hoary grass-- In these lines there is a very fine and vivid description of the atmosphere in the orchard. This description by the apple-picker gives us the very touch, the very feel of the atmosphere in the orchard. This description is sensuous and becomes alive because the words he chooses are just apt for the description and create an impression of drowsiness. Untermeyer rightly comments that it is a vivid memory of experience that the reader absorbs it physically. I feel it is not a memory of an experience it is much more-in this description the apple-picker is reliving the experience. The smell of the apples is too overpowering for him. He also senses the quaintness of the world as it appears to the exhausted worker. The scent of apples in this poem reminds us of a similar expression "drowsed with the fume of poppies" in Keats's Ode to Autumn. The apple-picker feels himself pervaded with an oppressive feeling of drowsiness. Here again we can trace a similarity between this drowsy sleepiness and the drowsy numbness of Keats' Ode to Autumn. The entire landscape and the atmosphere around him assumes a mysterious halo and is misted by over with a rare quality of strangeness. These qualities transform the scene completely and the apple-picker can neither get rid of quality nor can he comprehend the transformed world. As he unknowingly steps into the realms of this world of sleepiness the narrative of the about the ice skimmed from the trough mingles gradually with the dream the time references of the tenses become fused and confused. Brown comments on the rhythm and images of the poem.
"The meaning implied by the self-hypnosis and dreamy confusion on rhythm is finely suggested in the image of the world of 'hoary grass' the morning that anticipates the night vision. This blurring of experience focuses in the central metaphor of the poem, essence of winter sleep. Essence is both the abstract ultimate nature of sleep and the physical smell, the scent of apples a metaphysical image in T.S. Eliot's sense of the term. Fragrance and sleep blend, and sight and touch merge in. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight."
L1. 37-38. One can....sleep it is--"In these lines tone and rhythm work together beautifully, implying a great deal in relation to Frost's metaphor. The slight elevation of "One can see" recalls the more mysterious seeing of the morning just as the almost banal lyricism of "This sleep of mine" sustains the rhythm of dream-confusion. The rest of second line barely iambic, barely rhyming, casual and rough, assures us that the speaker has at least one toe in reality"
Thanks for helping me out with my exams.
Wouldn’t know what to do without these videos.
Well ain’t you a gem
No one could have explained it better😍
Utmost appreciation.
Aw my pleasure thank you lovely x
Thank you, you explained it better than my teacher. Also why don't you post anymore?
thank u !!!
I have a test tomorrow wish me luckk!!! and thank you for the video, really helped.
GOOD LUCK!!!
Thanks alot
Happy to help!
Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter..... On to the next obscure video in this godforsaken wasteland....
Even with headphones, the video is a bit too quiet. Otherwise, excellent video. Thank you.
Yeah sorry about that :( hope it was still helpful xx
Paradise Lost is blank verse. This is not. There are lots of rhymes, and there are lots of lines that are not iambic pentameter.
Ayo yer voice sounds amaizing i came here expecting some 40 year old women narrating analysis in the vedio I heard first few mins and left the vedio as I wanted to concentrate more on analysis less on voice but great job tho
Hahahaha thank you ❤️
"This is not "stream of consciousness." This is an over- and misused term.
Yeah fair point
Why do you sound so sleepy?! It made me sleepy smh.
You’re right I do. Sorry this was the first one I made I guess I was nervous!
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I found it immensely soothing. You have got a great voice.
not audiable mam
Soz mate literally best i could do with the software i was using. Try with headphones x