Sunday, April 17, 2016

SPM LITERATURE


A POISON TREE
by William Blake
Themes

·                  Anger, revenge and deadth
·                  Insincerity and deceit
·                  The danger of holding back one's feeling
·                  Bad feelings like anger among friends and rivals
·                  Keeping anger and its destructive consequences bottled up
Moral Values / Lessons

·                   We should not allow anger to control our life
·                  We should express our feelings in a healthy way not bottle them up
·                  We should make peace with everyone,friend and foe
·                  We should be sincere even with our rivals
Literary Devices

·                  Imagery - Stanza 2 gives a good image of a tree being well taken care of
·                  Symbol - The tree is asymbol of life and anger seems to have been given life to grow
·                  Personification - 'the night has veiled the pole' means night has been personified as a person putting veil or cover on the pole or light
·                  Diction - 'my wrath did grow' , 'my foe beheld it shine' , 'into my garden stole
·                  Metaphor - The tree of anger like an apple tree stars bearing fruit
·                  Irony - it is ironical that anger is a tree  albeit a poison tree; that is, a negative thing growing into something positive
·                  Simile - 'sunned it with smiles and with soft deceitful wiles ' means the smiles and wiles are like the sunlight

·                  Repetition - The word 'wrath' is repeated in stanza 1  for emphasis that anger is poisonous

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