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- The poem uses an extended metaphor to describe the speaker's anger as growing into a tree that bears poisonous apples. The speaker's enemy then eats an apple from the tree and dies.
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Nov 10, 2016 · In summary, the speaker of the poem tells us that when he was angry with his friend he simply told his friend that he was annoyed, and that put an end to his bad feeling. But when he was angry with his enemy, he didn’t air his grievance to this foe, and so the anger grew.
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- A Poison Tree
The speaker's enemy then eats an apple from the tree and dies. The poem is generally interpreted as an allegory for the danger of bottling up emotions, and how doing so leads to a cycle of negativity and even violence.
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‘A Poison Tree by William Blake has four different stanzas. It starts as a first-personpoem, where the poet is expressing his anger and hatred toward his enemy. The poem then takes a turn and ‘I’ is replaced with the word ‘It’, a pronoun to depict the feelings of the enemy. The poet has used a metaphoric style. For instance, apple depicts his venge...
Stanza One
The poet is not only expressing his anger towards his friend as well as his foe in this stanza, but he has also depicted the difference between two types of anger. He states that when you are angry with a friend, you convince your heart to forgive him. Even though you are hurt and you know that he did injustice to you, you try your best to forget the past and end the feeling of vengeance in your heart. On the other hand, when you are angry with an enemy, it takes ages for you to calm your ang...
Stanza Two
The poet is making a confession in this stanza of ‘A Poison Tree’– it is he, who is solely responsible for the hatred that has grown in his heart for his enemy. It is he, who has increased the vengeance in his heart. He has nurtured the hatred with his fears, spending hours together, crying for the ill that has been caused to him by his enemy. He has also nurtured the hatred with his sarcasticsmiles, imagining ill and cursing his enemy to go through the same or worse sufferings that he has be...
Stanza Three
The poet states that it is because of his dwelling in the same hatred, that it has grown every day. The hatred gave birth to an apple. The fruit signifies the evil that has taken birth in the heart of the poet. He states that he has now come to a point from where he can’t turn back and forget about his enemy until he does something to soothe his vengeance. Finally, the day comes when the poet’s enemy has met the evil fruit of vengeance, that he has grown with his fears, tears, and sarcasm. Th...
Anger is one of the most aggressive emotions that we all possess as humans. And why only humans, this emotion is possessed by all the living beings; even the animals are seen fighting with rage and anger on the streets and in the woods. In ‘A Poison Tree,’ the poet has clearly stated his anger and feeling of vengeance in his heart. He has forgiven ...
May 12, 2024 · Poet tries to explain it by a Biblical reference that when Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat apple but Satan urged them to eat that apple that caused them to being expelled from the Heaven. In the same way, here poets states that if he did not save him his enemy, even though he could save.
The speaker uses an extended metaphor to compare his suppressed anger to a tree. He nurtures his tree with "fears" and "deceitful wiles," and it grows until it bears a poisonous apple.
Nov 3, 2023 · The enemy or foe ends up under the tree, destroyed by the speaker's pent-up anger. The speaker seems okay about this, but is there some doubt about the destructiveness of his anger? Early communication of anger seems the best way to deal with it.
When they awake and go to the garden, the speaker’s foe is “outstretched beneath the tree” (Line 16). Readers can assume the nemesis has been overcome and is dead after consuming or touching the coveted apple. The speaker’s wrath has served its purpose and proven deadly against its intended victim.
