After Apple Picking Summary
Robert Frost

After Apple Picking Overview

“After Apple-Picking” is a 42-line, single stanza poem by American poet Robert Frost. The poem was first published in 1914 in Frost’s second collection of poetry, North of Boston. “After Apple-Picking” begins with the poem’s speaker drifting off into sleep after a day spent apple-picking. In the speaker’s dream state, the speaker blends his previous waking experience in the apple orchard with a fantasy version of the same event to consider complex philosophical questions related to human choice and agency.