To me, there is not that much that is similar about these poems. Of course, they both have apples in them and talk some about what happens to the apples, but that's about it.
Frost's poem is much less happy than Lee's. To me, the theme of this poem is about how hard it was to pick the apples -- the work of it still sticks in his dreams. So he is looking at the apples as work. He is seeing them (probably they are just metaphors for other things) as things that he has to work hard to get and he is sort of down about it.
In contrast, Lee portrays the apples as natural and symbols of carefree life. The apples just fall and whatever gets them (deer, wasps, worms) gets them -- it's okay. The narrators attitude towards them is that she will take what she gets and it's all okay.
So Frost's poem is about working hard and being a bit sad about how hard and pointless it is. Lee's is about taking things as them come and not stressing.
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