"Discuss the diction of the poem."
"After Apple-Picking"
The author uses many words which word normally not go together to show the reader how out of place and disillusioned he felt himself. "Magnified apples" shows the narrator's feeling of being overwhelmed with his task. He also says he cannot rub the "strangeness" from his eyes. This is odd diction because strangeness is not something you normally wipe from your eyes. Throughout the course of the poem, the narrator is falling asleep, and wants the reader to have this same feeling. His imagery of a cup falling but him not catching it because he was asleep almost makes the reader feel drowsy. He dreams of being swallowed up by the apples, showing that even though it is a strong sleep that he is falling into, it is not a peaceful one. His repetition in the line about "ten thousand thousand" fruit shows the magnitude of apples with which he has been bombarded. I know myself what a bunch of apples rolling together sounds like, and the author's use of diction describes it very well. His ability to conjure up these images help him to convince the reader that they are in fact the one picking the apples.
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