POISON TREE ANALYSIS

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It’s a poem about anger, revenge, and death. In this poem ,Blake is really indulging and exploring his darker side, and the darker side of the human condition by extention.

I was angry with my friend

I told my wrath, my wrath did end

I was angry with my foe

I told it not, my wrath did grow

The speaker describes how he was angry with his friend.Still, he told his friend he was angry(“ I told my wrath”) He was once angry with his : foe”, but didn’t tell him about it.The speaker did not talk about his anger( I told it not”), his anger got bigger and bigger ( “ my wrath did grow”).

And I watered it in fears,

Night and morning with my tears:

And I sunned it with smiles;

And with soft deceitful wiles.

The speaker using figurative language, he treats this anger very much like a plant.A plant needs water and sun in order to grow , and so apparently does his anger.

And it grew both day and night

Till it bore an apple bright

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine.

The hatred gave birth to an apple. The fruit signifies the evil that has taken birth in theheart of the poet

• And into my garden stole.

• When the night had veiled the pole;

• In the morning glad I see,

• My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

There he is; his enemy, dead underthe tree of his hatred. He bit thepoisoned apple of his vengeance. He Is murdered.

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