If
money were no object, would everyone go after their dreams? Each generation
teaches the next that to succeed in life they must make more money than is necessary.
Because each generation is taught this, most adults find jobs that do not make
them happy. This subject is the theme for Robert Frost’s “After Apple Picking”.
Through the use of imagery, Frost conveys a message of boredom with repetition
through well known sights, sounds, and feelings and regret for not pursuing
one’s true desires in life.
As
appealing as a profession may seem, one must love it to have the desire to
continue it for the rest of one’s life. Frost states in “After Apple Picking”,
“Magnified apples appear and disappear/ Stem end and blossom end/ Every fleck
of russet showing clear” (l. 18-20). Every detail is clear, passing by the
speaker who no longer seems to be amazed by these sights as they once were.
Throughout one’s life, every detail should remain clear and astounding. One
should never become bored or uninterested in what they do.
One may
regret spending one’s whole life doing monotonous work with no satisfaction and
little reward. Frost states, “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/ And
I keep hearing from the cellar bin/ The rumbling sound/ Of load on load of
apples coming in” (l. 21-26). These lines talk about feeling and sounds that
are all too well known to the speaker. Every action is now a pain to the
speaker because the speaker has been apple picking so long. One should do work
they will always love and never become bored of.
Frost
means to say that one should do what they love, and ignore the money to be made
in that profession. If one does what they are good at and they love, one will
be happy with their lot in life. For example, I want to be an artist. Art is
what truly makes me happy and it is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
Frost uses imagery to show how tiring a hated job can be if one does not love
it, and encourages readers to not make the same mistake the speaker did.
Aaaaaaad /essay.
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