A Poison Tree by William Blake - Themes
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- Themes
- Anger
- The emotion sets the poem in motion
- Evidence
- "I was angry with my friend | I told my friend, my wrath did end"
- "I was angry with my foe | I told it not, my wrath did grow"
- Analysis
- The first stanza contrasts two different ways on dealing with anger.
- What happens when you bottle anger up.
- What happens when you tell them of your anger.
- The first stanza contrasts two different ways on dealing with anger.
- Deception
- The speaker bottles things up and does not talk about things to his enemy. His enemy dies.
- Evidence
- "And he knew that it was mine, | And into my garden stole"
- Analysis
- The word choice "stole" is interesting as it reminds the reader that it is an act of theft.
- Communication
- The poet communicates a direct moral lesson about not communicating with others
- Evidence
- "I told my wrath"
- "I told it not,"
- Analysis
- Uses opposites to show how easily it could have been avoided
- Anger
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