My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
Questions.
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.
B. What experience does the poem describe?
C. What are the feelings of the speaker?
A. From Robert Frost's "After Apple-picking".
B. The poem is a vivid memory of the speaker's experience on the farm.
C. The end of the labor leaves the speaker with a sense of completion and fulfillment yet finds him blocked from success by winter's approaching and physical weariness.
