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    A Poison Tree - : William Blake

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    The poem is about a persona who harbors anger towards his friend and enemy. When angry with his friend, he talks it out and resolves the issue. However, when angry with his enemy, he says nothing and lets his anger grow. He deceives others by pretending to be friendly while feeding his anger in private. His anger takes root and grows into a poisonous tree bearing bright fruit. When his enemy eats the fruit, it proves fatal, showing how unchecked anger can destroy relationships and cause harm.

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    The poem is about a persona who harbors anger towards his friend and enemy. When angry with his friend, he talks it out and resolves the issue. However, when angry with his enemy, he says nothing and lets his anger grow. He deceives others by pretending to be friendly while feeding his anger in private. His anger takes root and grows into a poisonous tree bearing bright fruit. When his enemy eats the fruit, it proves fatal, showing how unchecked anger can destroy relationships and cause harm.

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    The poem is about a persona who harbors anger towards his friend and enemy. When angry with his friend, he talks it out and resolves the issue. However, when angry with his enemy, he says nothing and lets his anger grow. He deceives others by pretending to be friendly while feeding his anger in private. His anger takes root and grows into a poisonous tree bearing bright fruit. When his enemy eats the fruit, it proves fatal, showing how unchecked anger can destroy relationships and cause harm.

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    A Poison Tree - : William Blake

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    The poem is about a persona who harbors anger towards his friend and enemy. When angry with his friend, he talks it out and resolves the issue. However, when angry with his enemy, he says nothing and lets his anger grow. He deceives others by pretending to be friendly while feeding his anger in private. His anger takes root and grows into a poisonous tree bearing bright fruit. When his enemy eats the fruit, it proves fatal, showing how unchecked anger can destroy relationships and cause harm.

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    A POISON TREE

    -WILLIAM BLAKE-
    AI wasPOISON
    angry with my friend; 
    TREE And it grew both day and night. 

    Till it bore an apple bright. 


    I told my wrath, my wrath did end. 
    And my foe beheld it shine, 
    I was angry with my foe: 
    And he knew that it was mine. 
    I told it not, my wrath did grow. 

    And into my garden stole, 


    And I watered it in fears, 
    When the night had veiled the pole; 
    Night & morning with my tears: 
    In the morning glad I see; 
    And I sunned it with smiles, 
    My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
    And with soft deceitful wiles. 
    TASK 2
    SYNOPSIS

    ◦ The poem is about keeping anger and its destructive


    consequences. The persona talks about being angry
    with his friend. When he talks it over with his friends,
    his feeling of anger melts away. However, when he is
    anger with his foe, he does not attempt to sort it out
    with his foe. Instead, he keeps his anger inside and lets
    the anger grows inside him. He puts on a friendly front
    to deceive others, especially his enemy about his
    anger. This anger grows so strong and obsessive that it
    literally grows into a tree and bore a poisonous fruit.
    The fruit refers to the ugly results of the persona’s
    anger. In other words, it controls the persona
    completely and when the enemy tastes this poison, he
    suffers a setback or punishment including death.
    A Poison Tree
    4
    Stanzas

    Settings
    Place : Perona’s A
    poison 16
    garden
    Time: Tree Lines
    Day and night
    Persona
    An
    intelligent
    and
    scheming
    person
    Literal Meaning

    STANZA 1
    Lines Literal Meaning

    I was angry with my friend;  The persona was angry with his friend.

    He dealt with his angry feelings and


    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
    his anger was gone.

    The persona was angry with his


    I was angry with my foe enemy.

    He did not sort it out with his enemy


    I told it not, my wrath did grow. 
    and he became wrathful.
    Literal Meaning
    STANZA 2
    Lines Literal Meaning

    And I watered it in fears,


    The persona fed his angry
    feelings with fears and tears
    Night & morning with my daily.
    tears: 

    And I sunned it with smiles, 


    He also put on a friendly face in
    front of others to deceive them
    about his anger.
    And with soft deceitful wiles.
    Literal & Figurative Meaning
    STANZA 3
    Lines Literal Meaning

    The angry feelings grew so strongly


    And it grew both day and
    inside the persona that it became ‘a
    night. poison tree’.

    The persona compared it to an apple


    Till it bore an apple bright. tree that bore fruit or ‘an apple bright’.

    And my foe beheld it shine, The enemy saw the fruit ,

    The enemy knew the fruit belonged to


    And he knew that it was mine. the persona.
    Literal & Figurative Meaning
    STANZA 4
    Lines Literal Meaning

    And into my garden


    stole,  The enemy entered the persona’s
    garden quietly at night when it
    When the night had veiled was dark to steal the apple.
    the pole; 

    In the morning glad I see;


    In the morning, the persona saw
    enemy lying on the ground
    My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
    beneath the tree.
    THEMES

    Deceit and
    Anger Revenge Communication
    lies

    In the poem, the In the poem, the In the poem, the In the poem, the
    persona is angry at persona is not being persona harbours persona does not
    his friends and his honest towards his ill feelings against communicate with
    foe. Later, the anger foe. He smiles and his foe. his foe about his
    towards his foe leads acts as if nothing Bottling up ill anger. He keeps it
    him to an unwanted happens, but actually feelings is bad for inside.
    action. he is harbouring ill us and those
    feelings against his around us.
    for.
    Moral
    values
    We must deal
    We must learn We should communicate
    with our anger We must not
    to forgive our with the particular person
    before it turns seek revenge.
    enemies. about the problem that we
    into hatred. have with them.

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