What if money were no object?

Everyone has dreams and desires. They could be big or small, such as; president of the United States or overseer of a business, dictator of the universe or manager of a little corner store. What would people do if money were no object? Would they live their dream and own a business or travel the world in eighty-days? Would people make a difference in not just their life but in others that live thousands of miles across the ocean, or ten feet away from their own home? Robert Frost was a distinct artist. Not in music but in his writing. In Frost’s poem, “After Apple-Picking”, He uses symbolism and imagery, to convey a message of how the character has worked majority of his life and is looking back and noticing his regrets.

In the poem “After Apple-Picking”, Frost uses symbolism to explain sleep. Frost says, “One can see what would trouble/ this sleep on mine, whatever sleep it is” (l. 37-38). This makes the reader wonder: what other sleep is there other than what people does each night or day? In this poem Frost states that he does not know what sleep is coming upon him. Whether he will wake up, or deeper than that. Sleep that he will never wake from, ceasing his life. When the character analyzes his life he begins to notice what his life is full of, and everything he have left out. He notices that he have worked his body down to ruins. Just like Alan Watt’s very own lecture states “It’s better to have a short life that is full of something you like then a long life spent in a miserable way” (What if money were no object? 1:29-1:37). This quote is explaining how the character from “After Apple-Picking” is realizing that he wasted his young body with something he doesn’t enjoy, making cider. The character is noticing all of his regrets; instead of picking apples all day during the season and being bored after the harvest, he should have done something that he loved, like being able to do something fun with all of his friends.

Frost also uses Imagery in this poem. Frost state, “My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree/ Toward heaven still, / and there’s a barrel that I didn’t fill/ beside it, and there may be two or three/ apples I didn’t pick upon some bough” (l.1-5). Frost uses imagery to make the reader imagine what this may mean. To make them see what he is writing about instead of just making them read it just read. Frost makes you imagine a ladder still leaning on a tree and an empty bucket. Frost makes this clear that he have either been bored with picking apples or stopped because he was in pain from arthritis from his old age. Frost, metaphorically spoken, explains that the character has lived his life miserably.

The main reasoning for this poem is to realize and decide what you want to live like. Would you rather live a long miserable life or a short amazing life? Full of adventures, wonders, and curiosity? Do you want a box or a mansion? A rust bucket or a Mercedes? A bed or a concrete block? Live life the way your goals want too; the on thing that beggars want, live life that way that you dream, not picking apples all your life.