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.
And I watered it in fears,
Night and morning with my tears;
And I sunned it with smiles,
And with soft deceitful wiles.
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,
And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
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This poem is every deep. Once you actually read and interup it. Man it has so much meaning. -
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maybe this poem speaks of an individual as they are. How they have both positive and negative attributes and how a friend or foe brings out these aspects of them. Hence we become murderers in the process of hatred . -
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From guest Liz (contact)
i have some english homework on this poem and none of it makes sense! help! i dont get what the reader can infer from the last line of the poem.....
a. the narrator stopped being angry
b.the narrator asked for forgivness
c.the narrator wished the enemy ill will
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d.the narrator chopped down the tree
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with multiple choices the best way is to read the poem carefully and see which of the options you can eliminate. I'm sure you'll see that some just can't be the answer.
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blake, blake, blake, blake, blake
i love how he explains how the world should be
we should forgive and forget like how we fogive friends
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I don't understand the line: "When the night had veiled the pole" In your opinion (because that's what poem analysis is, opinion and interpretation), what is the significance of this line?
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This is superb!
This man is surely a genius, I loved his thoughts. I found this poem to be tied into the bible, especially verse one ties in nicely with "let the sun not set with you in a provoked state" and scripture also says if you have a problem with someone you should put it right with your fellowman before you take your gift to the alter.
So by discussing it with his friend, he let it go. Letting go of his grievience was good for him and his health for
Now with his foe, he nurtured and fed it and it grew, behold it grew so much because he fed it so much time and thought low and behold it turns into a frut bearing tree.
His foe is aware of his dislike towards him. When the night had veiled the pole, so at night he slept, into his garden his foe did enter, and his foe is down beneath this tree of slander and bad thoughts, to me through destroying his foes charachter, he has put him down visably.
His foe is put down under the barrage of his wicked thoughts and perhaps gossip because now it can be seen by others too has he has destroyed his foes character completely in his dream his foe is down, and he is glad.
Rather a cynical ending, just showing how disasterous events can escalate if bad thoughts are allowed to grow and manifest in the heart. I found this poem to be of a religous nature. The conflict between love and hate. Mans natral inclinations of revenge and Gods of love.An excellent write
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A Simple Poem?
From guest Emily Bottino (contact)
I have just read many of the comments on Blake's poem, and I would like to suggest three things: First, and most importantly, the language of poetry is never see-through or "simple," ESPECIALLY when you think it is- when the language like that of A Poison Tree sounds like an easy nursery rhyme. If a mere lesson was trying to be taught or one meaning expressed, it would be done through speech, which is very different from poetic language. Secondly, Blake was not religious in the sense that many of you are thinking him as. He had his own form of mysticism, and actually was against the common religious thought of his time. Lastly, never put anyone else on this forum or in the class down for asking what this symbol is or what that meaning is, etc. Why? Because often it is those people who are not clouded with the typical connections made that have the greatest insight to offer about a poem. I noticed that a few of you did not know what the apple meant, where the poison was, or how the foe ends up dead. I also noticed that some response to these questions was in arrogance: Of course the apple is the forbidden fruit of Genesis; Of course the poisonous tree grows out of speaker's untold anger; Of course the foe stole the apple at night and ate it, since now he is lying flat under the tree in broad daylight! Are you sure? Consider instead that apple might be a symbol of wisdom or intent, even of good or sweet intentions. Consider that the poem never says the foe is dead or the apple is poisoned, or even that the foe took or ate an apple at all! Perhaps it is the speaker who is poisoned by his untold wrath- maybe he can no longer lay in his garden and enjoy the fruit like his foe because he is paralyzed with silent wrath. A poem is never transparent. If you think it is, either you are mistaken or it is not a poem. -
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This is one of my favourite poems and to me it has never had anything to do with takig anything but instead is all about true friendship. If someone I do not like annoys me I let it fester and grow until it becomes a big issue therefore making any healthy relationship impossible - hence any chance of a healthy realtionship with that person dies "My foe outstretched beneath the tree" With a friend however, someone I like or love, I already value the friendship and as happens with a healthy relationship, there is enough trust that I feel comfortable to raise any worries early on. In this way they can be worked through and resolved "I told my wrath, my wrath did end" I guess the true sign of a really amazing person is someone who can treat all people as a friend - and talk to anyone in the same healthy way. I have met a few people like this, and meeting them I have felt blessed, their apple tree bears "apple bright" without any signs of poison. -
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after further review... the poem could be associated with a sexual passion and how the speaker achieves an orgasm... not to be perverse but possible to realize through maturity. I personally do not agree, although I can understand how the justification for it. -
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Guest Chilean,
Why does anyone try to take things from others?
Perhaps this apple tree is symbolic of the apple tree in the garden of Eden?
Who knows?
However re-read the poem and you'll see that it does not say the enemy took the apple just that the enemy lies outstretched beneath the tree. Is he dead or alive?
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This is interesting
Although this comment is good, it doesn't say it was an apple tree in the garden of Eden Genesis 3:3 . it does not name the fruit by name.
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the dude was angry at a friend and a foe, he forgave friend not foe. he kept getting angry at da foe but held his anger in(stupy). then his anger grew. until he saw his foe dead under a tree -
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In summary, the themes are: 1)It's better to let your anger out in a positive way, then brood, and let it manifest 2)What goes around comes around: his foe gets a taste of his own medicine, the "medicine" he was reponsible for creating. -
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i like this poem , it is nice. i like the way the words flow.. it you catch my drift , it is a little confusing to describe how he turns his anger into an aplle anywayyy.,... i think william blake isa exrreeemly good poet ,thought many of his opoems aere rather confusing., sorry about the spelling , i am in a rush . x -
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I think this poem refers to his relationship with his foe. It's not as simple as, yeah i was angry at my foe so i killed him. I think it means that he used tricks to get his enemy closer, letting his wrath grow like a tree intil it was so tempting his foe couldn't help but approach, leading to his downfall. -
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The first stanza notes the common tragedy of miscommunication with pre-conceived enemies. Even when the specific grievence or its source is apparently identical--the almost simplistic and repeated "I was angry" draws this parallel explicitly--the response is radically different. The balance draws an obviously Biblical parallel with the growth of an apple to the almost cancerous growth of "wrath" against the "foe". The presumed death of the foe is quite goulishly yet clinically reported by the author in the final stanza. In line with the Biblical theme, we can presume a parallel is being drawn between Satan and the actor in the foe's downfall: the author becomes immoral, and perhaps Satan-like by failing to resolve his grievence in the first instance, simply because the object of these grievences was a "foe" to begin with. -
I love this poem!
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Poison Tree is a brilliant poem and i can't stop reading it! -
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This is good... very good, i like the way it's said.
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i think the foe that he talks about could be one an opossing contemporary , and i also think that the poem doesn't end when the poet saw his enemy laying dead the point is the tree still exists which symbolizes his need for more revenge -
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I think the poem is more about the dangers of untold anger. He told his friend he was mad, and then everything was fine, but he was angry at his foe and he let the anger bottle up inside. It grew and grew and then turned into a poisonous tree. Nowhere in the poem does he say that the tree and fruit it bears is poisonous, but he doesn't have to. It's in the title. The foe, seeing whose apple it was, decided to take it and by eating the poison, he dies. The speaker's anger turned to poison, and that's what killed the foe. There is an allusion to Paradise Lost in the poem (the whole apple thing), but I have to agree that the poem isn't religious. -
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What i got was this, the poem is about anger. His anger for his friends he deals with it and it goes away. But of enemy her left is anger build and grow til his enmey saw it hence the "apple bright." The I think he then killed his enemy one night in a rage. but i can't be sure the last part is unclear to me help anyone? -
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I don't get how the reader knows that the "foe" dies. It just says that "I see my foe outstretched beneath the tree". Can someone please help me understand? Thanks. -
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If the "foe" is beneath the tree he is in, for him, enemy territory. If he was outstretched under the tree he is either wounded or dead since he is not evading capture!!
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I don't get how the reader knows that the "foe" dies. It just says that he was "outstretched beneath the tree". Can someone explain to me? Thanks -
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i need to study this poem as i will study more of william black's work sp i need more explaining for it , and thanks for help -
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I Actully get the poem, but what metaphor gives the poem unity, and how is it extended thoroughout the entire poem? -
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I guess your teacher wants you to work that one out Katelin. Do you think the writer was talking about himself or people in general? Do you think he "talked" to his wrath? Do you think an emotion can bear real fruit (apple)?
Its all in there when you've read it a couple of times your answers might become clearer.
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I agree with that but i would say its a sense of smugness after killing the foe even though he wasn't trying to -
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i really hve a hard time with this poem in interpreting it. with all the good adjectives how could he be talking about a foe. then comparing it to an apple¿? i dont read poetry alot but i am reading this for a project. it is over my head. -
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this poem shows a mans anger growing the tree represents his anger growing and the apple is when the nger starts to show and he eventually kills his foe -
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hi, can someone please tell me what the poem is about please. thank you Sarah -
i dont like it
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i was reading it in english but i think it is bad for kids because it tells them that it is good to kill people and you should be happy but you shouldnt kill people because it is mean -
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I think that this is one of my most favorite poems ever. I'm going to find this and frame it, I think. -
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From guest Keller (contact)
i would have to agree with Cris on this one because in the end it shows that the guy is happy that his foe is dead and that goes completly against what the bible teaches us about thou shalt not kill and that we shall love thy neighboor. through out this poem i can see nowhere where it makes any refence to the tree of forbidden knowledge except for the apple but there are many other peoms and literary texts that have refence to apple tree but not to the tree in the garden of eden. -
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From guest Chris Corbett (contact)
thatthis poem is not nessarily religious, it could just be an explanationof what a fight or feeling of hatred can do. If you let the fight go on without getting it off your chest it will grow and continue until you crack and hurt the other person. -
A Poison Tree by William Blake
To me this poem is straight forward,the biblical connotations are in confessing of sins and forgiveness.The use of an apple is not necessarily to do with the garden of Eden,it is illustrating that if anyone does us wrong continuously when we try to be alright with them,then their own maliciousness rebounds on them,to their detriment and our joy in the reward,which is of their own making.Basically it is Karmic Law at work. -
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the poem is deffinately religious. anyway Blake was an avid reader of the Bible and it was common in those time to refer back to the Bible -
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I suggest this poem to read as it is a poem set among others. It is a poem that has some depth, and is one that I couldn’t understand fully, and know what it is particularly expressing at first glance. It is a poem that had a sense of mystery around it. Anger, wrath, and fear are very prominent in the short sixteen-line piece and engulf you from the start -
Beautiful poem.
Blake is always "seemingly" simple. But the more you read the more layers emerge. Note he makes a distinction of friend and foe. It is when we label a person " a foe" that we nurse resentment towards him. It is then fed and nurtured with more ill-feelings and soon it grows strong and bears fruit. The last 2 stanzas are so beautifully woven to show how completely hatred and anger can consume both the person who nurtures hate and the alleged 'foe'. -
I take this poem more literally than some of you. I like to treat it as a poisened apple his enemy stole from him. But regardless of how you look at it, it has strong messages about greed and anger. Very intereting poem
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i'm doing this poem for class work at the moment and it seems extremely interesting. If people said that this poet was uninteresting i would be forced to tell them otherwise. I amy only be 12 years old but i certainly know how to understand certain poems. n e way peace dudes!
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I have just started to study Blake but I find 'A Poison Tree' to be one of his most interesting. It has deep connotations of religion, in particular Genesis, and human emotion. The narrator of the poem takes joy in the death of his foe, which is an obvious reference to Schadenfreude. I have to agree with Xombie as to the reference of the 'pole'. The foe tried to steal the apple during the night, seemingly undetected. However poetic justice prevails when the foe ends up being poisoned. The Poison Tree shows the darker side to human emotion.
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i love this poem so much because it can be interpreted in so many different ways. i think that he could be talking about anything. that's the beauty of it. you can change the meaning to match your own particular problems. i read this poem in class and we entered it in a contest for our school. it didnt win, but that's beside the point. the way my teacher read it was interesting because he just kind of read it. this made me think more too because this could be the way blake wanted it read. it could be that blake meant it to absorb into people's minds and let them decide for themselves. the way he speaks of his foe is interesting because he compares it to an apples. apples are good right? so maybe in some part of him, he wanted to befriend his foe. also blakes word choice speaks to me. the way he used all good adjectives is intersting. it makes you think that maybe they were friends at one time. the rhyming scheme is good and i just really like the poem.
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In this poem the use of word ''apple''is reminding of the GARDEN OF EDEN anf the idea of temptation.
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In this poem several contrasts are discussed like friend-foe:love-hate:trust.the language is very simple,meaning is profound.Well according to me the mesage of poem is we should practice selfless love and brotherhood.
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Xombie i am inclined to agree. I love this poem because i think it has many interpretations. I think Blake had references to religion, from the 'apple' which is used in the Bible as a way to trick Eve. Being a romanticist, Blake had a love for nature, rural life and was religious. He disagreed with people such as Darwin, who questioned the human existance and creation. This poem has a moral message to it, maybe Blake is saying 'the apple of wrath is like a poisonous tree in the mind'?
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The pole refrence has nothing to do with sex. The pole is another name for the North Star. Blake is saying when night has covered the North Star, or when it is dark. It seems you guys have pulled the sexual connotation out of your ass.
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I have to agree with my esteemed intellectual nemesis Herr Clive in his analytical prowess of the edanistic metaphors that a so prevalent in " a poison tree". However I have to contend his ideas on the lesser know but great works of Blake’s "letters to a friend" in which we first read the "illustrious pole". I do not think that we should take the "veiled" in night quote just on face value, I think we should then look into the relationship with Blake and his dearly beloved mother. Somewhat of an Oedipus complex is show throughout this work and maybe the reason for its late publishing. However its s jolly good collection of poems getting to the man behind the persona he uses in "songs of experience and songs of innocence" his letters are truly a transition into experience I think you will agree!
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'The Illustrious Pole' suggests, the pole is a blatant phallic symbol. The concept of it it being 'veiled' in night would suggest its raw sexual potency, as the narrator (whoever he may be) is 'glad' to see his 'foe outstretched' This would imply a connection to Milton's 'Paradise Lost' at first glance, to the casual reader. Closer inspection however, yields reference to the noted homosexual Swedish writer, Otto Forstatt, a childhood friend of Blake's. What do you think?
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Regarding Milly's comment concerning Edenistic imagery, good work. Nevertheless, I feel we have overlooked the significance of the pole in the last stanza. As in Blake's later poem, '
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To me, this poem is about the power of anger. I agree with Milly that the taking of the apple has religious connotations, and the quite Biblical 'wrath' (as in Wrath of God) is important. However, for me this poem is about duality. The rhyming couplets and fairly simple language make the poem seem childish at first, but the dark undertone of deception and revenge is juxtaposed with this. Also, the "Fair is foul and foul is fair" [Macbeth] theme hilighted in the second stanza with the outward "smiles" and secret "tears" is very effective.
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wrath merely means anger, he told his friend he was angry with him and they became friends again- he concealed it (hid it) from his enemy and 'ate him up inside'.
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Sorry, I must apologize, I have been thinking about this poem and trying to link it to a religious context and I realize that the apple and it’s link to the apple of knowledge in the garden of Eden forces to reader to associate the narrator with the devil in that he uses methods of deceit to trick his foe or victim into consuming the apple. In the Bible this consumption gets Adam and Eve kicked out of paradise in turn making them aware of their new mortality. This is, in effect what the narrator has done to his foe by poisoning him with this ‘apple bright’ he has made us all aware of the foe’s mortality. So in this poem instead of displaying the morals of a creator or ‘god’ he is showing us the view point of evil and siding his narrator with Satan which is religious indeed, however it is not religious in the sense that most of his other poems are in the siding of good and morally correct. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Regards, Milly
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Dear Oleander,
I dont think this poem is at all religious, I mean sure some of hi spoem link back to religion but he also has really varying views on religion. Take "The Fly" for example, it's a higher power that controls the life of a fly, a random and fairly apathetic power at that. Then you have 'The Tyger" where 'the creator' is something mechanic and humanised, ('and what shoulder, and what art/ could twist the sinews of of thy heart?'). Indeed most of his poems do link back to religion but they all follow a certain pattern: intro desription then finishes with some rhetorical moral message. This poem doesnt follow this pattern, which is one reason why I like it so much, but also why I dont think you can read it like you would his others. It goes into the satisfaction of revenge and how you get out what you put in. This is enirely different to most of his other poems and it's narrated really differently too. It's first person narration with definate action instead of being removed from the action or being an observer. 'The Little Black Boy' is narrated similarly to this poem but that's the only one I can think of of the top of my head. I dont mean to be rude it's just that I cant see any justification for this poem as being interpretted as religious. Please help me understand how you construed it as so.
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*sighs* Love this poem... This poem is extremely symbolic in a religious sense... Blake was a religious poet... but dang... could he write.
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poison tree- a good one.when reading, i like to assume that the rose is a 'harlot' whereby the worm, smt muscular and strong... with male existance in it. come to think of it as a teaser to us human being when first reading it.
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great poem
Blake writes a poem of meaning a poem of sorrow.
He opens a furious hate that turns into
He has become hard hearted to his friend
At the first part he is really talking to the apple
Meaning the deceitful hate of a man will break friendships’ hand
As the man eats the apple and dies for all man did was let nature go aerie
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Wonderful poem
I have known this poem for a while. I think it's much like what Sarah said, that the wrath for the foe grew into the golden apple. See, when you hold a grudge, everything that person does afterwards adds to it "And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears" so, in the eyes of the narrator [for lack of a better name for him] the foe became worse and worse. The last bit is a little too metaphoric to tie back to anything, i think it's mainly just saying that the foe overstepped his boundries, went too far one day and the wrath killed him. So all the hate that had built up in this person finally came out and i think the narrator killed him. So yeah, just my opinion. -
when i say means this etc i mean when people state that they know exactly what the poem is saying, sorry for the confusion :$
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luvly poem!
I think the apple is symbolic of the poison that has grown in the person and the foe purposefully steals is becoz he is an enemy and it is possible for an enemy to steal. So the enemy eats this apple and bcoz it is posionned with the wrath and anger of the narrator that has gradually built up he takes a bite and is instantly killed. I hope that help.. just what I think, only the author knows what he was writing about, everyone who is saying the poem means this etc is being a bit close-minded because you don't know what the author is definitely saying!! -
This was a very nice peice of art. Short and simple. If you don't take it literally, its a little humorous. But if you're reading it and angry at someone, I'm sure it's soothing as well...sorta.
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from my point of view, blake is actually trying to show us the darkside of a friendship because friendship is always described as a very beautiful thing so, he wanted to show us that there are some friendship which are full with vengeance,hurt and betrayal.
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it,s a Beauty
"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. "
how very factual n simple sweet n great.
it,s a beauty
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Don't take this poem literally..,I agree with Jamie. This poem is soo symbolic. It's about anger that could become a time bomb if we suppressed it too much. This poem gave me the Idea of REVENGE.
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To answer the question about "wrath", that's just anger or fury, as in "The Wrath of Khan", so "told my wrath" is like "told my story", not "told my dad".
I wouldn't know how literally to take the rest of the narrative, except that I have seen old friendships slowly die where one person has taken offence at something but never told the other, just kept on nursing their anger.
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heehee. i think this poem is about trechery and stuff. it's like, get it out of your system, or else you'll end up 'watering it with your tears'. this could have been more like, life choaking. this guy could have gone insane with wrath at his enemy, till the tree watered by his own blood ate up his life. but instead, this tricky ole fellow grows his wrath into a poison apple...and you can geuss what happens to the 'foe'
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i understand bit's of what this poem is about but i just can't get my hand on what "wrath" is meant to mean. is wrath his friend, enemy or what??
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It is a straightforward revenge fantasy ... both the history of Blake's life and the very simple, clear message bears this out. Great poetry is sometimes great because it 'says just what it means' and that's that! The wonder is not in the 'feeling' (in this case not very nice - he wants to kill someone for having an affair) but in the skill deployed in explaining it; from the pre-novel phase of Eng lit, this poem's 'art' would have lay in explainign something well known in a new way. Making up new stories/emotional lines was almost seen as cheating - like changing the distance between the goalposts at football (soccer) because you haven't the skill to win 'as it is'.
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This poem seems to speak of the bitterness of repressed anger, of what it can become when it is not expressed when it first comes to be. Illustrating that it can grow into something more over time when it is left to fester rather than aired in the light of day.
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amazing poem. I like it...regardless of if it is symbolic, metaphoric, or representative. Everyone reads what they want into a poem, and only the original artist can tell what he originally meant by it.
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You people don't know anything about this poem...face it. It's symbolic, you guys are taking it too literally. The apple represents a physical subject of anger..growing, and growing, until it possesses so much anger, it has the ability to kill. It's all about the repressment of anger, and the dangers of it.
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amazing poem no matter what anyone says... now shakespeare on the other hand... that guy's a crack pot
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the pole is the north star
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don't touch it!
'The poison tree' is a great anger management poem. It seems to set the way for people with a highly ticked off imagination. Personally I find it calming in times that I am mad or upset at someone. It is well writen for a time of madness. -
The poison tree is from 'Songs of Experience' what is its matching poem from 'Songs of Innocence'? i really need to know im stumped!
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It's actually talking about Blake killing his friend who had an affiar with his wife. That's why his foe was beneath the tree. I don't think if you know what the apple represents, you should be doing a paper on this poem...doesn't sound like you're all that interested in it. Didn't ya'll pay attention to British lit in highschool? This is my favorite poem :)
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I don't know anything about poems really, but I sorta like the idea that Blake is speaking as Judas. The garden that the former friend/Jesus stole into could be the garden of Gethsamanie. Taking the apple could be him accepting the Judas's kiss. The cross is sometimes referred to as a pole, relating back to Exodus when Moses raises the bronze snake on a pole to cure the Israelites. They were poisoned by snake bites. The cross is also sometimes referred to as a tree. The analogy doesn't fit perfectly but it fits pretty well.
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when he uses the word pole he is meaning that tree and he is saying, when the sun rose, he saw his foe outstretched beneath the tree.
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This is one of the definitions of pole from the webser online dictionary: a tree with a breast-high diameter of from 4 to 12 inches (10 to 30 centimeters). I'm not sure if this is what Blake meant or not, but there it is. (Maybe he just needed something to rhyme with stole.)
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basically what I get from this poem is that he had an enemy, thus his foe. Instead of moving on w/ his anger, he watered it with contempt throughtout the years & when his foe bit into the apple that grew from hate, he died. thus the ending, 'my foe outstretched beneath the tree.' this is full of meaning & you can tell he put much thought in this one..
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well done! i loved it. in a few words it was: brilliant =)
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