After Apple-Picking

1. The imagery in  Frost's poem, After Apple-Picking, allows the reader to see apple-picking through the eyes of the narrator. Organic Imagery allows you to know what the narrator is feeling inside, "For I have had to much Of apple-picking: I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired." The narrator is overworked and tired of doing the job that he once loved. He no longer looks forward to the harvest because it is so much work and he has grown old. Kinsthetic Imagery allows the reader to know how the narrator feels externally, "My instep arch not only keeps the ache, It keeps the pressure of the ladder-round." After many years of spending long hours climbing up and down ladders, the narrators feet ache every time he ascends the ladder. He has climbed the latter so many times that he feet have kind of molded to the curve of the ladders steps. Frost evokes the sense of sight by describing what the narrator sees around him as he is at the top of the ladder. 
2. The speaker used to love him job. He has done it for so many years that he has grown tired and no longer enjoys it. He doesn't do the best that he can do, "And there's a barrel that I didn't feel Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough." He finds apple-picking monotonous, annoying, and tiring. He feet can't handle climbing up and down the ladder anymore. The speaker doesn't seem to be dissatisfied with his work, he just accepts his results so he can move on. 
3. The speaker may know that he will be dreaming of apple-picking because it surrounds his life and he dreams about it every night. The tense of the poem may shift because the speaker wants to show how much apple-picking governs his life. Dreaming and real life experiences don't seem to be that different.
4. The author uses sleep to not only literally mean the speaker is physically tired but also to symbolize that the narrator is overworked and tired of his job. The speaker may also be afraid of sleep because he dreams about apple-picking. The speaker just wants to get away from the redundant tendencies of his life. 
5. a.) The ladder may symbolize the speakers life. He is now at the top of the ladder meaning he is old. b.) Harvest time is usually in the fall right before winter. "Essence of winter sleep is on the night," Winter is usually a symbol of death, leaves fall off trees, crops die, grass dies, etc. The fact that the season is winter may symbolize that the speaker may die c.) Harvesting may symbolize that by picking the apples off the tree, the speaker is slowly picking his life away. With each apple he picks, he 'picks' a year off his life. d.) Looking through the pane of glass may symbolize that the speaker 'looked' out on himself picking apples, sort of like an out-of-body experience. e.) The essence of winter may symbolize that the speaker's soul will be at rest during the winter sleep, meaning that the speaker will die in the winter.
6. Woodchucks hibernate, meaning that they sleep all winter and awaken in the springtime, whereas humans sleep only for a night and awaken when the sun comes up. 
7. I believe that Frost's poem is about the speaker coming to terms with his death. The harvest is coming to an end just like his life. The speaker is looking through the glass pane at his old life and realizes that he has wasted his whole life picking apples. He is coming to terms with his death even though apple-picking had consumed his life. And he will death will support the harvesting season of the apples. Once the harvest is over, the speaker will die. 

Notes on Imagery:
Imagery is the representation of sense experience it evokes the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch. It is the only way a writer can create an experience for the reader. A reader needs to live a poem.