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"Understanding Blake's 'A Poison Tree'"

The poet's anger with his friend ended when he suppressed it instead of expressing it. By hiding his emotions, his anger grew over time like a poisonous tree until it was too late to control.

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"Understanding Blake's 'A Poison Tree'"

The poet's anger with his friend ended when he suppressed it instead of expressing it. By hiding his emotions, his anger grew over time like a poisonous tree until it was too late to control.

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School Name: Prasan Vidya Bala Mandir Matric. Hr.

Sec. School
Class: IX
Subject: English
Topic: Poem -Poison tree
Warm up
 You overhear a friend talking badly about you.
How angry does that make you feel?
I don’t feel angry at all.
I feel moderately angry.
I feel slightly annoyed.
I feel very angry.
I feel a little angry.
I feel furious. ✓
Learning outcomes
Understands the central theme of
the poem.
Understands the content and its
meaning.
Understands the literary devices
used in poem.
Central theme
 William Blake's "A Poison Tree" is about anger,
the central theme and message is about the
suppression of anger. The poem argues that like a
tree, anger grows if one suppresses it. The allegory
within the poem emphasizes that when a person
hides or denies their emotions, they will become
poisoned with bitterness and more vengefulness.
Literary devices
      
Personification. - Waters the wrath with fear. - I told my wrath, my
wrath did end.
 Metaphor. -The tree is considered as a wrath/anger. ...
 Alliteration. sunned and smiles, friend and foe, bore and bright
 Imagery. Throughout the poem.
 Irony. the foe beneath the tree of hatred.
 Repitition. “I was angry with my friend… I was angry with my foe”
 Allusion

"Garden.. apple...tree" alludes to Adam & Eve, the Garden of Eden.


Questions
 Who does ‘I’ refer to?
 How did the anger of poet come to an end?
 What does ‘it’ refer to?
 How is ‘it’ watered?
 How did the poet feel in the morning?
 Who is the ‘foe’ referred to here?
 Why was the ‘foe’ found lying outstretched
beneath the tree?
Assignment
 How did the poet’s anger with his friend end?

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