Answer:
The word which best describes the tone of "After Apple-Picking" is:
3. dreamlike.
Step-by-step explanation:
"After Apple-Picking" is a poem by Robert Frost. The speaker is exhausted after picking apples, and he feels he is about to fall asleep. It is at this moment that the poem takes on a dreamlike tone. It's as if the speaker is only half-awake, already predicting the dreams that are about to come. He will see the apples in his dreams - their color and scent will remain with him once he is no longer awake. He will even see and hear them becoming cider.
[...]
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
[...]
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
[...]
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.