aspects to my interpretation to the theme of this poem. One seems to be do not put anything off. It also looks as if the man was very negative towards himself for not being responsible for everything that surrounded him. He felt as if he had missed out on something by not jumping at every opportunity that came across his way. Hes guilty for not forever searching out every bit of knowledge available. Thisleads us to believe to never decline a lesson to be learned. After Apple-Picking can probably also be determined as After living your life. You learn only through experience.The syntax in After Apple-Picking, is very catching and almost predetermined. The short lines in the poem are threatening. They are widely seperated rhymes as well. Berry 4Example:Line 8: The scent of apples: I am drowsing offLine 12: I skimmed this morning from the drinking troughThis enhances the fateful tone of the poem by creating confusion, like one who is ready to die. The death notes at the end of the lines determines that the writer is strongly giving finality to the characters life. Also, after labeling the rhyme scheme in a basic ABCD..etc. fashion, the rhyme scheme eventually reaches all the way down to the letter Y. Notice it does not continue to the end at Z. I believe this symbolizes the stage of life that the narrator places himself in. He has not quite made it to the tail end of death, but the end for him is lingering near....
