After Apple Picking……the TRINITY of Sleeping, Dreaming and the Somber (original) (raw)

2022, After Apple Picking

Robert Frost, an American poet, has written this poem in 1914, when he was 40 years old. And it was published in North of Boston, his second poetry collection. The poem illustrates three different aspects of the Trinity of Imagination: Firstly, a pastoral scene of New England life in autumn, characteristic of Frost's early works. The narrator is recalling his day spent picking apples on a ladder as he falls asleep. Secondly, a dying man who is looking back on his life, represented by apple picking, and of his regret for unaccomplished desires. The old man only wishes that he could do more before de dies, hoping it would give meaning to his life. Thirdly, the poet is himself imaging the cause behind the great exile of first Humans from the paradise till the End of Days, Adam and Eve, after Eve picked the forbidden fruit, "APPLE", from the garden of Eden (paradise), as it was being written by John Milton is his famous Epic poem, "The Paradise Lost". In which it is being narrated that Adam and resultantly the whole human race regrets and desires, if Eve had not been persuaded by the evil plans of the Satan (Devil), we, the humans had a Mortal life, free of the miseries and difficulties of the earthly life for the whole Eternity. Whereas scholarly interpretation of the poem focuses on the Trinity of themes of sleep, dreaming and the somber, conclusively to this piece, in which the narrator wonders if his oncoming sleep is a normal slumber or a long eternal sleep, like the sleep of misconception in which humans fell in and the Divine Eye was being shut, after being exiled from the Garden of Eden.