The poem ‘After Apple-picking’ is written in the first person; the speaker is someone who has worked long and nard but is now on the verge of being overwhelmed by fatigue and the depth of the experience of picking apples. The details of-his activity are recalled in contemplating the dream he expects to have.

The poem is filled with images drawn from the speaker’s experience with the pastoral world; the events he remembers all took place on a farm, specifically in an apple orchard. He has climbed a ladder to pick apples; even when he has finished, he can almost feel the rungs of the ladder beneath his feet. The smell of the apples is pervasive, and he can still hear the sound of the wagons carrying loads of apples into the barn.

Frost intends to evoke a mood of hesitation and drowsiness, as if the speaker were about to drop off to sleep and is no longer fully in control of his thoughts. He does this in the framework of apple-picking. Thus the title is highly appropriate.