Tag Archives: apples

Apples That Taste of Earth and Song

By Robin Bates | Published: July 27, 2018

Apples bring out poetic creativity, all the more so because the West has seen them as the forbidden fruit. I share here a selection of tempting apple poems.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "August", "eve's version", "Song of the Wander Aengus", Charles Algernon Swinburne, Christina Rossetti, fruit, Goblin Market, Grace Schulman, Grimm Brothers, John Milton, Lucille Clifton, Paradise Lost, Snow White, temptation, the fall, William Butler Yeats | Comments closed

Not Your Father’s Apple Cider

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2016

A visit to my cousins’ hard apple cider processing plant showed me that making the beverage has changed markedly since the days of John Keats and Robert Frost.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Ode to Autumn", After Apple-Picking, farming, hard apple cider, John Keats, Robert Frost | Comments closed

It Is Your Own Lush Self You Hunger For

By Robin Bates | Published: July 19, 2011

In her Garden of Eden poems, Lucille Clifton sees heaven as a stifling morality that both Eve and Satan are trying to break through. Apples in this drama are symbols of female sensuality.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "eve's version", "satan understanding at last", fruit, Garden of Eden, Lucille Clifton, Sensuality | Comments closed