ROBERT FROST, ?After Apple-Picking, PDF Listed Below What is the speaker looking forward to? What does he seem to feel guilty about? How does he attempt (and perhaps fail) to escape these responsibilities that he knows are his? How does the illustration of fallen apples relate to the speaker himself? How does this relate to Dunbars and Robinsons suggestions about achieved or failed expectations? ?The Wood-Pile, PDF Listed Below What role does (in)decision play for the speaker? How does the poem represent spaces both familiar and foreign? What commentary does this poem make about the sense of incompleteness of tasks which Frost represented in After Apple-Picking? What positive message can be brought from this poem whose final word is decay? ?Birches, PDF Listed Below How does this poem represent the relationship between the real and the ideal? How does the speaker maintain this balance? How is the boy too far from town represented as extremely resourceful and self-sufficient? What does this contribute to the poems message? How is the sense of being alone characterized differently in this poem than in Mr. Floods Party? What message is proposed by the act of filling a cup even above the brim? What does this have to do with swinging on birches (literally) and life (figuratively)? How does the speaker eventually remain true to his romantic side while maintaining a pragmatic view of life? ?The Need of Being Versed in Country Things, Link (https://poets.org/poem/need-being-versed-country-things) How does this poem express equal amounts of idyllic Romanticism while emphasizing the harshness of Modernity? Whats the speakers attitude about feelings of regret? What role does Nature play in its own preservation? How is the power of individual perspective given value?