In Robert Frost's poems "After Apple Picking" and "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening," Frost connects the pastoral with deeper meanings within the context of life itself. In "After Apple Picking," the use of language connects sleeping and resting after a hard day's work with preparing oneself for death; in "Stopping by Woods," this sense of death and sleeping is staved off by a man who has much more to do in his life. These two poems discuss the inevitability of death in the human spirit, with one narrator somewhat more welcoming of it than the other.
In "After Apple Picking," ...
