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    1) The persona is angry with both a friend and a foe after misunderstandings. 2) He talks through the issue with his friend and resolves it, but lets his anger towards his foe grow in secret. 3) This anger is personified as a tree that bears a poisonous apple. His foe eats the apple and dies, leaving the persona feeling glad.

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    1) The persona is angry with both a friend and a foe after misunderstandings. 2) He talks through the issue with his friend and resolves it, but lets his anger towards his foe grow in secret. 3) This anger is personified as a tree that bears a poisonous apple. His foe eats the apple and dies, leaving the persona feeling glad.

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    1) The persona is angry with both a friend and a foe after misunderstandings. 2) He talks through the issue with his friend and resolves it, but lets his anger towards his foe grow in secret. 3) This anger is personified as a tree that bears a poisonous apple. His foe eats the apple and dies, leaving the persona feeling glad.

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    1) The persona is angry with both a friend and a foe after misunderstandings. 2) He talks through the issue with his friend and resolves it, but lets his anger towards his foe grow in secret. 3) This anger is personified as a tree that bears a poisonous apple. His foe eats the apple and dies, leaving the persona feeling glad.

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    A POISON TREE

    LEARNING OBJECTIVE

    Recite and understand the meaning of the


    poem stanza by stanza
    Identify literary elements in the poem
    Think about your friends and what
    they mean to you.

    Have you ever been in a situation


    when you had an argument or
    something happened that was left
    unresolved?

    Write down your experience on a


    piece of paper
    WILLIAM BLAKE
    Born November
    28, 1757
    London,
    England

    Died August 12,


    1827
    London,
    England
    A Poison Tree
    I was angry with my And it grew both day
    friend; and night.
    I told my wrath, my Till it bore an apple
    wrath did end. bright.
    I was angry with my And my foe beheld it
    foe: shine,
    I told it not, my wrath And he knew that it
    did grow. was mine.

    And I watered it in fears, And into my garden
    Night & morning with stole,
    my tears: When the night had
    And I sunned it with veiled the pole;
    smiles, In the morning glad I
    And with soft deceitful see;
    wiles. My foe outstretched
    Summary
    1 st

    2 nd 3rd 4th
    Stanza
    Stanza Stanza Stanza
    One dark
    The persona is
    His tree of night, his foe
    angry with his
    The persona anger grows sneaks into
    friend and his
    feeds his and was his garden
    foe
    plant with poisonous and steals his
    anger and because it is poisonous
    He talks about
    hatred filled with apple.
    his
    misunderstand anger and
    He watered hatred He eats it and
    ing with his
    his plant with dies.
    friend and gets
    his tears
    over it
    The tree The next
    He nourishes bears an morning the
    He does not
    it with fake apple and his persona feels
    talk about his
    smiles and foe sees it glad to see
    anger to his
    deceitful and wants to his foe dead
    foe and it
    wiles eat it under his
    grows into a
    poison tree
    plant
    Literary elements
    Setting
    Place: In his garden, under the poison
    tree Time: at night, the next morning

    Tone
    Anger, bitterness, accusing

    Language and style


    Personification, Metaphor, Symbolism,
    Imagery
    Themes
    Forgive and Friend vs. Foe
    Anger/ Wrath In the poem, the
    Blake advises us forget
    In friendship, we persona decided to
    not to nourish talk about his
    anger and hatred must not let our
    anger grow. feelings with his
    against our friend and the
    friends and foes. We need to talk problem resolved
    He preaches love about our
    against hatred feelings and
    discuss why the With his foe, he
    and trust against decided to let his
    misunderstandin misunderstandin
    g happened. anger grew for a
    g. long time and it grew
    Blake suggests
    that it is best to into A poison tree
    forgive and which bore a
    forget so that we dangerous apple that
    will have a peace killed his foe.
    of mind
    Moral values
    We must not harbour wrath
    and hatred against anyone

    We should talk and discuss


    about our feelings

    We must learn to forgive


    and forget
    Take out the
    problem you
    have faced with
    a friend

    How do feel
    about the
    situation after
    reading A
    Poison Tree?
    What does the
    poem teach us?
    Thanks!
    ANY QUESTIONS?

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