What if money were no object (after apple picking is the poem i reference)

Everyone has dreams, something they want to do in life more than anything, but a lot of people don’t go through with it and follow their dreams. But what if money was no object? If money was no object, what would people do with their lives? I like to think that life would be different and people would follow their dreams, but that’s malarkey, a lot of life would be the same, except power is what people strive for (which is what people want now anyways) because money and power are both too ingrained as something that is more important than anything for them to just be thrown out. Some things would never get done, because no one wants to do it and without money as an incentive, no one would do it, nobody likes fixing the sewers or being a garbage man and no one will do it. After Apple Picking is a poem about regrets, sadness, and death, and Robert Frost conveys these emotions through the use of symbolism.

            In his poem Frost uses symbolism to help the reader understand what will happen if you don’t do what you want and live your life creating regrets. Frost says in his poem, “And there’s a barrel I didn’t fill/ beside it and there maybe two or three/ apples I didn’t pick upon some bough.” (3-4-5) In this the apples symbolize chances, chances he didn’t take but probably should have. It goes along with the theme of regrets in that he is sad that he didn’t take the chances those apples symbolize. But if these chances are ruined, what will happen?

            The poem is all about chances and which ones haven’t been taken or ruined. Frost states, “No matter if bruised or spiked with stubble/ went surely to the cider heap/ as of no worth.” (34-35-36) In these lines he means, even if it isn’t ruined or there is even a chance to take it again, it is worthless for him. These chances are gone, even if they aren’t really.

            This poem is all about the road not taken (other Frost reference FTW) and how your life is when you dwell on your regrets, and he uses symbolism to convey the emotions that arise. It is important to understand the message of Frost’s poem so that you know not to have regrets in life because it haunts your dreams, ruins your waking day. If money wasn’t an object I’d do the same thing I plan to now, become an astronaut and research the effects of low gravity on things.