MyAnna Buring
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- 2012 · Drama · 1 season
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A poem about the consequences of anger and resentment, and how they can grow into a poisonous tree that destroys the one who nurtures it. The speaker describes how he was angry with his friend and his foe, and how his wrath ended or grew accordingly.
A Poison Tree is a poem by William Blake that compares two ways of dealing with anger: expressing it or suppressing it. The poem uses an extended metaphor of a poisonous tree that kills the speaker's enemy who eats its apple.
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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 ...
A Poison Tree is a poem by William Blake that explores the consequences of hidden anger and vengeance. The poem uses a quatrain form and a tree as a metaphor to show how the poet's hatred for his enemy grows and leads to his death.
"A Poison Tree" is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection. It describes the narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions which eventually lead to murder.
Nov 10, 2016 · A poem about the dangers of repressed anger and hatred, and how they can corrupt both the speaker and his enemy. The speaker compares his anger to a poisonous tree that bears an apple, which his foe eats and dies from.
A poem about the consequences of suppressing anger and the power of forgiveness. The speaker describes how he nurtured his wrath against his foe and how it led to his downfall.
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A Poison Tree is a poem by William Blake that explores the consequences of suppressed anger and resentment. The speaker compares his anger toward a foe to a poisonous apple tree that he nurtures and deceives, and his enemy consumes and dies.
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