AFTER APPLE-PICKING Robert Fross, author of the poem, describes the path of a person between life and death. Fross mentions different thoughts and memories that are received by the speaker in this phase. From them, he highlights “Choices in life”, or “Apple-Picking”, and explains how they influence not only one’s life, but more intriguing, one’s death. As the poem starts, the author introduces a person that is starting to die(“My long two-pointed …showed first 75 words of 537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 537 total…we can tell that the speaker believes in reincarnation, because a woodchuck sleeps (“dies”) during winter and wakes up (“reincarnates”) after the season. And if he believes in this he then thinks that he would somehow have infinitive lives. Robert Fross created along this poem a character with a mediocre mind, an individual who thinks has infinite lives to succeed. He created someone who will fail every day, every year, every life and every death.