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    1) The poem describes how the speaker's anger towards an enemy grew steadily as he nurtured it with fear, tears, false smiles, and deception. 2) This anger took root and grew into a tree that bore a bright but poisonous apple. 3) The enemy saw the apple and took it, unaware of its poisonous nature, and in the morning the speaker found the enemy dead under the tree.

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    1) The poem describes how the speaker's anger towards an enemy grew steadily as he nurtured it with fear, tears, false smiles, and deception. 2) This anger took root and grew into a tree that bore a bright but poisonous apple. 3) The enemy saw the apple and took it, unaware of its poisonous nature, and in the morning the speaker found the enemy dead under the tree.

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    1) The poem describes how the speaker's anger towards an enemy grew steadily as he nurtured it with fear, tears, false smiles, and deception. 2) This anger took root and grew into a tree that bore a bright but poisonous apple. 3) The enemy saw the apple and took it, unaware of its poisonous nature, and in the morning the speaker found the enemy dead under the tree.

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    POEM Vocabulary:
    A POISON TREE Match the meaning with the words given.
    By William Blake
    Wrath Deceit Wiles Veiled
    Stanza 1
    I was angry with my friend: Meanings Words
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end. Distortion of the truth for the purpose of misleading
    I was angry with my foe: Strong
    Conceal
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.
    Trap
    Duplicity
    Stanza 2 Fierce anger
    And I watered it in fears, Trick
    Night and morning with my tears; Lacking clarity
    And I sunned it with smiles, Fraud
    And with soft deceitful wiles. Stern
    Deeply resentful indignation
    Stanza 3 Cheating
    Distinctness
    And it grew both day and night,
    Till it bore an apple bright;
    Wrath Foe Watered Sunned Veiled
    And my foe beheld it shine,
    Deceitful Wiles Bore Beheld Pole
    And he knew it was mine,
    Dishonest way to make The Pole star or the
    Stanza 4 people believe things North Star shows
    And into my garden stole which are not true where the north lies
    When the night had veiled the pole: Produced fruit Saw
    In the morning glad I see Extreme anger Clever tricks a
    My foe outstretched beneath the tree. person uses to get
    what he wants
    Covered or hid something Provided sunshine
    with something
    Poured water on plants Enemy
    MadamASA/LiteratureComponent/SPM1119/2018
    2

    LINE-BY-LINE MEANING Stanza 3


    Line Stanza 1 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 3
    Stanza 1 1 And it grew both My tree of anger grew My “tree” was poisonous
    Line Stanza 1 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 1 day and night, steadily every day until because it was full of
    1 I was angry I was angry with my friend. I I had a misunderstanding 2 Till it bore an apple it bore an apple. anger, hatred and
    with my told my wrath (anger) to my with my friend and was bright; Outwardly, it was shiny suspicion. Later, it bore a
    friend: friend And I got over my angry. I told my friend but it was poisonous. shiny poison apple. My
    2 I told my anger. about my wrath. I got 3 And my foe beheld My enemy saw the enemy saw it and knew it
    wrath, my over my anger and forgot it shine, shiny apple and he was mine.
    wrath did end. it. But when I got angry 4 And he knew it was knew it was mine.
    with my foe, I did not tell mine,
    3 I was angry I was angry with my foe him about it. I bottled up
    with my foe: (enemy). I did not tell my my wrath and it Stanza 4
    4 I told it not, wrath to my foe so my anger intensified. It grew and Line Stanza 1 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 1
    my wrath did grew. grew like a tree. 1 And into my garden One night, when One night when there
    grow. stole darkness hid the pole were no stars, my foe
    2 When the night start, my foe crept into came into my garden and
    Stanza 2 had veiled the my garden. He stole my stole my poison apple.
    Line Stanza 2 Line-by-line meaning Meaning of Stanza 1 pole: apple. He fell into my rap. He
    1 And I watered I treated my anger like a My anger grew like a tree. 3 In the morning glad In the morning, I was ate the apple and died.
    it in fears, plant. A plant needs water I nourished my anger with I see happy to see my foe In the morning, I was
    and sunshine. Likewise, suspicion and hatred. I was 4 My foe lying dead under the happy to see him lying
    2 Night and
    every day I nourished my suspicious and angry with outstretched tree. dead under my poison
    morning with
    wrath with water in the my foe. I tricked him to beneath the tree. tree. I got rid of him
    my tears;
    form of fears and tears. bring him closer to me. I successfully.
    pretended to be friendly
    3 And I sunned I also gave my anger-tree with him and gave him
    it with smiles, sunshine I the form of false false smiles so that he
    smiles and cunning tricks. would trust me and be
    4 And with soft
    close to me.
    deceitful wiles.

    MadamASA/LiteratureComponent/SPM1119/2018

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