Mac:
It's interesting that you should choose "After Apple-Picking" as another example of a failed Frost poem. For me it's one of the all time greats. Although I regret that stupid woodchuck (seems to me just an inescapably funny word), the poem is otherwise as moving and lasting as any poem I know, right up there with "Mowing." There's no point in my enumerating its wonders because, after all, these differences of taste are finally inexplicable, but I'll say that I'd be a happy poet if I could ever come up with something as true and universal as the dream vision of the apples.
Richard
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