the message conveyed by the poem "A poison tree" by William Blake.
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The message of the poem is that if we hold anger within and nurture it, it is poisonous and can harm others. In the first verse, the narrator sets the stage for this message by stating that when he is angry with someone and tells the person, his anger ceases. But when he keeps his anger to himself, anger with "a foe" (line 3), his anger grows.
As the poem goes on, the narrator uses the metaphor of a tree to show what happens to the seed that begins as anger. He tends to the tree with fears, tears, false smiles, and "deceitful wiles" (line 8). This is the narrator feeding his anger by holding onto it, rather than simply letting it go. Ultimately, his anger bears fruit, the apple on the tree. When his foe sneaks into the narrator's garden and eats the apple, he dies from its poison. Thus, the narrator's anger has killed his foe.
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"A Poison Tree" is a poem by English poet William Blake, first published in his Songs of Experience in 1794.
The poem uses an extended metaphor to describe the speaker's anger as growing into a tree that bears poisonous apples. The speaker's enemy then eats an apple from the tree and dies.
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