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Ivan Pope:
A little later Farmer Barleymow comes by.
Farmer Barleymow represents the pleasures of the earth, of the teet and (later) of the body. H brings the sustenance that Bod needs to survive. He is obviously at some level also the supplier of apples. This man knows apples.
"It'll be down," says Farmer Barleymow. "What goes up must come down."
Even the one who supplied the apple, the medium upon which the concept is made, does not have much of an idea beyond platiitudes. He knows his onions and his apples but not his art. He waits with them.
