Robert Fross Case
Robert Fross describes the path of a person between life and death. He mentions different thoughts and memories in this poem. He highlights “Apple-Picking” and “two-pointed ladder” to explain how they influence not only one’s life. It is more scheme and about one’s death.
The poem starts as “My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree toward heaven still.”, the author introduces a person that is starting to die. He uses a two-pointed ladder to clarify a decision that makes at the begging of death: heaven or hell.
As the speaker travels away, memories arrive to his mind. It is remanding him that the choices or opportunities he did or nor consider in the past. So, he could make better decisions for his new life. However, many thoughts seem to reach the character’s mind. It is seeing that Fross wrote “But I am done with apple-picking now” which means that the speaker is desperate of so many decisions need to be made in one’s existence. The desperation is making him give up.
Moreover, the speaker keeps receiving thoughts and memories. Robert Fross mentions in “I am drowsing off.” Differently, this may mean the guy is getting bored or dizzy of getting images over and over again. Surround by his dizziness, he realizes that the decisions in his life did not satisfy him. Because he describes his previous world is “a world of hoary grass”.
“But I was well, Upon my way to sleep before it fell, And I could tell, What form my dreaming was about to take.” Three riming verses in the poem, to explicate the speaker’s emotions as he realizes the decisions in his past life are not the finest.
“What form my dreaming was about to take.” “Of load on load of apples coming in.” Robert Fross keeps describing the choices that the speaker considered to have in haven in distinctive ways. Then, “For I have too much, Of apple-picking: I am over tired, Of the great harvest I myself