THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF 'THE SHIP OF DEATH' AND 'AFTER APPLE—PICKING'——The Similiar Notes

摘要

After Apple-picking is one of the representatives of Robert’ Forst’s masterpieces. It was published in 1914. The speaker in this poem is a New England farmer.The time is in the late autumn.The poem begins with the farmer’s description of his working tool with loving exactness____a "long twopointed ladder","a barrel".Besides these,the farmer has also introduced for us apples on the bough, a drinking trough, the frosty grass,the