Reading Some Good ol Books

Nooo, I didn't steal your guys idea Matt. I just thought of it way before you kids did and kept it in a corner in my mind until it was the right time. I don't think you ever told me that you and Michael were planning on rewriting in the blog.

But since we have a group going here, why not bring in some of the good ol AP Lit into us because apparently Matt here wants to get that good feeling back yea?

So what would we like to analyze nowadays? The leaves are beginning to change colors and everything, it's almost time for fall. How about a poem by Robert Frost called After Apple Picking:

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree

Toward heaven still.

And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

Essence of winter sleep is on the night,

The scent of apples; I am drowsing off.

I cannot shake the shimmer from my sight

I got from looking through a pane of glass

I skimmed this morning from the water-trough,

And held against the world of hoary grass.

It melted, and I let it fall and break.

But I was well

Upon my way to sleep before it fell,

And I could tell

What form my dreaming was about to take.

Magnified apples appear and reappear,

Stem end and blossom end,

And every fleck of russet showing clear.

My instep arch not only keeps the ache,

It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.

And I keep hearing from the cellar-bin

That rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in.

For I have had too much

Of apple-picking; I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.

There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,

Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall,

For all

That struck the earth,

No matter if not bruised, or spiked with stubble,

Went surely to the cider-apple heap

As of no worth.

One can see what will trouble

This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.

Were he not gone,

The woodchuck could say whether it's like his

Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,

Or just some human sleep.

mm.. Well, I like analyzing poetry, but maybe this one time we could all just read and enjoy its meaning to ourselves unless you feel like sharing some thoughts :] bring on the nostalgia