How does the poet use language in the poem, After Apple Picking?

The language of the poem is relatively simple, not unlike what one would use in everyday life. This simplicity is typical of Frost’s poetry, which often features colloquial language and scenes from daily, New England life. With the poem’s intense focus on the speaker’s first-person subjectivity, there is also a lyric quality to the language. However, the poem also complicates how easily we can match the views of the speaker with those of the writer, Frost – the numerous shifts in temporality in the speaker’s dream state create the sense of an unstable subjectivity and almost suggest that the speaker is an unreliable narrator.