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Images of Apple PickingDr. HoferAfter Apple Picking is fraught with imagery. Frost uses visual, olfactory, kinesthetic, tactile, and auditive imagery throughout this piece. Because the poem is filled with a variety of images, the reader is able to imagine the experience of apple picking. Frost brings He begins with My long two-pointed run fors sticking through a tree (line 1). This line gives the reader a visual concept of a long pointed ladder nestled in an apple tree. And, allows the reader to expand that image to a multitude of apple pickers with their pointy ladders alongside him in neighboring trees. Frost continues with the visual images with following linesAnd theres a barrel that I didnt fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didnt pick upon slightly bough. (Lines 3-5)Because of these lines, the reader envisions an apple picker on his ladder high up in the tree fling as many barrels as he can, but still not filling them all. In addition, to the visual images, Frost then moves on to olfactory imagery.In one very simple line, The thread of apples I am drowsing off line 8, Frost gives the reader an opportunity to smell apples. As he does not specify the type of apples cosmos picked it is left to the readers imagination as to what type...