The poem is about how anger and revenge can grow over time like a poisonous tree. The speaker describes watering and nurturing his anger toward a foe by keeping it inside instead of expressing it. This causes the anger to grow larger, represented by a bright apple on a tree. When the foe sees the apple, he recognizes it comes from the speaker's anger. The foe then eats the poisonous apple and is found dead under the tree, murdered by the speaker's vengeance that grew unchecked over time.

1. POISON TREE ANALYSIS

2. THEME
THEME
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.

3. 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

4. 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”).

5. And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my
tears:
And I sunned it with smiles;
And with soft deceitful wiles.

6. 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.

7. 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.

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

9. • And into my garden stole.
• When the night had veiled the pole;
• In the morning glad I see,
• My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

10. There he is; his enemy, dead under
the tree of his hatred. He bit the
poisoned apple of his vengeance. He
Is murdered.

11. THANK
YOU
FOR
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ATTENTION