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English, 10.12.2019 01:31 alexisthegirl

After picking apples
by robert frost

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
5 apples i didn't pick upon some bough.
but i am done with apple-picking now.
essence of winter sleep is on the night,
the scent of apples: i am drowsing off.
i cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
10 i got from looking through a pane of glass
i skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
and held against the world of hoary1 grass.
it melted, and i let it fall and break.
but i was well
15 upon my way to sleep before it fell,
and i could tell
what form my dreaming was about to take.
magnified apples appear and disappear,
stem end and blossom end,
20 and every fleck of russet2 showing clear.
my instep arch not only keeps the ache,
it keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
i feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
25 and i keep hearing from the cellar bin
the rumbling sound
of load on load of apples coming in.
for i have had too much
of apple-picking: i am overtired
30 of the great harvest i myself desired.
there were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
for all
that struck the earth,
35 no matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
went surely to the cider-apple heap
as of no worth.
one can see what will trouble
this sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
40 were he not gone,
the woodchuck could say whether it's like his
long sleep, as i describe its coming on,
or just some human sleep.
1. gray or white or as if aged
2. a reddish brown
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read the sentences from the poem.

the scent of apples: i am drowsing off.
i cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
i got from looking through a pane of glass

how do these lines contribute to the poem's setting?
a.
it shows that the narrator is in the kitchen thinking about baking an apple pie.
b.
it shows that the narrator is getting ready to go outside to pick apples.
c.
it shows that the narrator is standing inside and looking out at the apple orchard through a window.
d.
it shows that the narrator is standing outside in an apple orchard.

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