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Help! Robert Frost Poem: After Apple Picking?

in the last two lines of the poem:

Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,

Or just some human sleep

Long sleep = hibernation = renewal/reborn

Human sleep= euphemism of death

Can this be antithesis? (ideas of opposite meaning to express contrast)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I think "human sleep" just means normal sleep.. because animals die too, so why would death be a "human" sleep?

    Also, I'd say that "long sleep" is a euphemism for death, since to humans, the only "long sleep" we can have is death.

    But if you don't agree, you can call your interpretation an antithesis, no problem.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    at the same time as the words mirror the top of seasons with the autumn’s passing into the sting of wintry climate, it fairly is greater. The teller of the story is reflecting on the top of his existence and the long sleep to come back. partly he looks into the empty barrel as issues completed incomplete. completed with apple choosing as is finished with the attempt to “fill the barrel” with existence’s efforts left undone. those apples are the areas of existence. The essence of existence is powerful as is the fragrance of apples by way of fact the long sleep attracts close to. New insights into existence are seen by using a sheet of ice by way of fact the metaphor for tinted and warped glass giving new insights and yet that doesn’t remember by way of fact it surpassed from view (melted) as a lost memory by way of fact the sleep attracts closer. It is going on yet this is the crux of the poem. ****** by skill of how, i could additionally say that his poetry did no longer suck as one so intelligently placed it. It became an perception into existence that great poets have been waiting to recent for something persons.

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