After Apple-Picking Sin Quotes Page 2

OK, we'll just lay out our cards on this one: the fallen apples seem to us like fallen people, or sinners who have lost their dignity along with their grace. Frost seems to feel sympathy for the fallen apples and, by extension, fallen mankind.

The speaker will continue to be haunted by similar thoughts all night long, except he won't exactly realize it, being asleep. We think the word "trouble" is a fitting word when you consider all the subtle references to sin and the Fall of Man.