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Interpret the lines: ‘Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off. ’ |
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Answer» It is night time, and the speaker is very tired. He compares his approaching sleep to an ‘essence’ or smell that wafts through the winter night. Not surprisingly, this essence smells like apples. This might mean that either he is falling asleep on his ladder in the orchard as night falls, or he is in bed, just thinking about being out in the orchard. This ambivalence continues throughout the poem. |
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