SECTION – C

A POISION TREE
-WILLIAM BLAKE
I. Synonyms:
1. Enmity - hatred
2. Destruction – destroy
3. Wrath - extreme anger
4. Veild – covered up
5. Beneath – below
6. Bore – produced
7. Stole - moved quietly and secretively
II. Antonyms:
1. Distrust x trust
2. Foe x friend
3. Deceitful x honest
4. Wrath x happiness
5. Preserve x spoil
III. ERC:
1. “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.

1. What has grown day and night?

The anger of the speaker has grown day and night.
2. To what extreme was his anger?
The anger was too high to make the apple bright.
3. What was the enemy’s reaction?
He looked upon the shining apple.
4. What did the enemy do finally?
He stole and ate the apple.
5.What the apple was compared here?
It was compared with the speaker’s anger.
IV. Summary:

The speaker recounts being mad at a friend. When the speaker was
angry with his friend he would reveal it so that his anger gets
vanished. But as a contrast he would never say his anger to his enemy
so this made his anger to get increased.
The speaker cultivated this anger as if it were something planted in a
garden, metaphorically nourishing it with fears and tears, both day
and night. The speaker's smiles and other gentle deceptions used to
hide the anger, in fact only fed the anger further.
The anger grew constantly until it became a tree, which bore a bright
apple. The speaker’s enemy saw this apple shining and knew it
belonged to the speaker.
The enemy struck into the speaker’s garden during the dead of night.
The next morning, the speaker was happy to see this enemy lying
dead beneath the tree.