AFTER APPLE PICKING | SUMMARY EXPLAINATION | ENGLISH | SEM-6 | OSMANIA UNIVERSITY @shivanipallela⁩

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]Students, welcome back to our channel.

[00:00:02]So, here in this video we are going to discuss the complete lesson explanation that is after apple picking. So, the students who are pursuing semester six English, uh you will have the common subject my even if you're B.Com, B.Sc, BBA, any stream under the Spandana University.

[00:00:19]This one video will be more than enough to cover this lesson after apple picking. Any question you need to write this summary only whatever I'll explain in the video. So, without getting late, let's get started. And this notes PDF is available in our Telegram group for free of cost. So, no need to pay any amount, okay? So, "After Apple Picking" was written by Robert Frost. So, what is the author name, Robert Frost. So, he was born on 26th March 1874 and died on 29th January 1963.

[00:00:57]So, date of birth and date of death of the author you need to remember compulsory, ma. He was only one of the most famous American poets of the modern period. His poems mainly focus on nature, everyday life, and human experiences. Means, he was one of the famous American poet it seems in the modern period. And most of his works will be depends on the nature and everyday life and the human experiences.

[00:01:26]So, Robert Frost used simple language uh uh conversational tone, imagery, okay?

[00:01:34]Imagery and symbolism in his writing which made him poem, okay? Which made his poem easy to understand and meaningful. So, why he became popular means his poem is very easy to understand in simple language it will be there. So, that's why it is became very uh uh like famous, okay? One of his works were "The Road Not Taken and Fire and Ice. Okay, so these are the most important of famous works it seems.

[00:02:03]Okay, so his poetry often gives deep life lessons through ordinary situations and scenes from nature. Okay, so this is about the author ma. Compulsory you need to write about the author any question.

[00:02:17]Author is important about the author is important minimum seven to eight lines you need to write it in the examination.

[00:02:25]Now coming back to the poem, what is the poem is about?

[00:02:30]After Apple Picking is a thoughtful and symbolic poem written by Robert Frost.

[00:02:36]So this was written by Robert Frost.

[00:02:38]This Apple Picking is there no, it is one of the symbolic poem it seems. In this poem Frost describes the feeling of a tired apple picker after a long day of work. Here it is a story is about a apple picker it seems. So he was very tired. Okay, in a long day of a work.

[00:02:59]Okay, on the surface the poem talks about the apple picking but deeper inside it speaks about human life, hard work, dreams, success, tiredness, regret and even death also. But we are discussing in the poem about the apple picking only but that apple picking picking is indirectly deeper inside about the it will shows the about the human life, it's about their hard work, about their dream and success like that.

[00:03:29]Okay.

[00:03:30]The poem uses simple language and natural images to express deep ideas about life and human experiences. So the main important and like important part of this poem is that it is using the natural way of conversational tone and natural images.

[00:03:51]Okay, to express the deep ideas in the poem. The speaker in the poem is a hard working man who has spent the whole day picking apples. He feels physically and mentally exhausted after completing his work. So, he was very hard working. He spent whole day by picking the apple.

[00:04:11]So, he was very mentally and physically he was very exhausted. It seems like he was very tired. Okay. As he prepares to sleep, his tired mind begins to reflect on his life and experiences. So, evening after work is done, he was very like exhausted, no? He prepares to sleep. He He prepares himself to sleep. But, the tired man gives him in a life experiences. The poem creates a calm but serious mood where the speaker thinks not only about the work Okay, where the speaker thinks not only about the work but also about the meaning of life and passing of time.

[00:04:54]While sleeping he was thinking that life is just about picking an apple like we are doing just hard work but we What is the meaning of life? What is the purpose of life? What is the passing of time? He was goes on thinking on that time.

[00:05:08]The apples in the poems are symbols of goals, achievements, and responsibilities in life. See, I have said, no?

[00:05:16]Apple picking It is a symbolic poem. So, the apple in itself in the poem is a goals, achievements, and responsibilities in the life. The speaker talks about the reaching high branches and collecting apples carefully which represents the effort people to make to achieve their success and fulfill their dreams. Like if you want to reach your goal or a dream, it will not come directly, no? You need to climb the tree. You need to pick the apples.

[00:05:44]You need to collect carefully. Yes or no? So, that is your responsibility.

[00:05:49]That is your hard work. That is your your work with your getting success. Yes, or no?

[00:05:55]However, some apples fall to the ground and are left behind. These fallen apples are symbolize missed opportunities, failures, regrets, or incomplete task.

[00:06:07]See how beautiful it was explained. While picking some apples will be fell down, no? So, that fallen down apples are considered as a missed opportunities, failures, regrets, or incomplete task. Okay. So, through this image Frost that Robert Frost shows that human life is never perfect and that everyone experiences disappointment and unfulfilled desires. See how beautifully it was explained. Yes, or no?

[00:06:38]Another important symbol in the poem is ladder.

[00:06:42]That means pointing towards heaven.

[00:06:45]The ladder represents ambition, growth, and journey of life. It shows that speaker describes to achieve something meaningful at right higher goals. Okay.

[00:06:59]The speaker has worked hard throughout his life, but now he feels tired and ready for rest. See, the ladder is symbolic for the ambitions, growth, and journey of life. Yes, or no? To achieve something, you need to do something.

[00:07:15]Okay. To reach your goals, you need to do something. Growth you are having, no? That is the called as a symbolic of ladder.

[00:07:23]The poem also gives importance to sleep and winter. Sleep in the poem may sleep simply mean rest after hard work, but it may also symbolize death. Okay, here there are two meanings for the sleep, ma. One is sleep that is prepare of the sleep, proper mindset.

[00:07:45]And second one is also symbolized about the death. The speaker is unsure whether the sleep he feels coming is ordinary sleep or a deeper sleep or eternal rest.

[00:07:56]Eternal rest is something forever, that is death. So, he was thinking about that. This creates a mysterious feeling in the poem. Winter represents the final stage of life. Old age, like ending of the human activities. Like you how beautifully was described everything. Yes or no? So, the winter itself is giving a last stage of the life.

[00:08:20]Frost connects the changing seasons with the changes of human life. Okay? So, both physical tiredness and emotional weariness after working continuously, he thinks deeply about the life and realizes that every journey must finally come to an end. Nobody is permanent in the universe. Yes or no? You need to face hard work, you need to face success, you need to face failure.

[00:08:45]Good, bad, everything you need to face.

[00:08:48]Every person eventually needs peace and rest. Okay? So, one of the major themes of the poem is the pass of time. Okay, passage of time. That means just as apple picking season ends, human life also moves towards the end, no? So, Frost explained that how the moving cycles are will be there. Okay? From rest to youth, youth to old age, how we will be forming like from small to young age, young age to middle age, middle age to old age, old age to like that. So, cycle of the thing is there, no? So, the incomplete works are fallen apples.

[00:09:27]Remain readers and that nobody can achieve everything perfectly. Yes or no? Nobody in the world can achieve everything perfectly.

[00:09:35]So, everyone will have good and everyone will have bad. Yes or no?

[00:09:39]So here in the poem an apple picking Frost uses ordinary things like apples, ladders, sleep, eyes, winter. Okay, these kind of things he was used to express the deep psychological ideas. It is very simple and conversational style also. It is very useful lesson also. It is very It is giving a useful information also. Okay? So after apple picking is a meaningful poem that explores life, hard work, dreams, tiredness, and death through the special experience of apple picking. Okay? It shows that how a human life is filled with achievements, regrets, trust, everything. Okay? So it is about the lesson easy lesson, simple lesson. How the author is symbolizing the apples, ladders. Okay? Fallen apples. Okay?

[00:10:33]Everything whatever I have explained you need to write the answer summary in detailed in the examination. Okay? So this lesson is very easy and this is about the lesson. I hope that you have got clarity. Still if you are having any further doubts in this lesson, you can let me know in the comment section and this is the notes PDF which is prepared by me and it is available in our telegram group for free of cost. Clear?

[00:11:02]So this is all about the students.

[00:11:04]All the very best for your examination as well as the preparation. See you all in next video. Bye-bye everyone.