Imagery in Poetry

“After Apple-Picking” is a poem written by Robert Frost. In this poem, Frost uses imagery to an extreme. He takes an ordinary activity, like apple picking, and turns it into an overload for the senses. What makes this poem interesting is that six of the seven senses applied in poetry writing are used. “After Apple-Picking” is a poem for the senses in which the reader can actually see, smell, hear, and feel all the events of apple picking.
The first sense that is described in the poem is visual sense. The reader is initially given a visual image of the set-up the speaker has taken to pick the apples. Lines 1-5 give the reader an initial overview of the apple-picking set-up by describing tallness of the apple tree and how the ladder is poking out through the top of tree. The third line of the poem shows the reader an empty barrel, waiting to be filled by the apples. Frost later uses visual imagery to describe the look of the apples. Lines 19 and 20 describe the appl...