What Is The Tone Of If One Reads A Poison Tree

If one reads A Poison tree by William Blake, you’d come to the automatic conclusion that he’s angry. Although this may be true, Blake’s poem touch base on the many ramifications anger can display. He introduces two different scenarios. One in which he has a fallout with a friend, and the other in which he has a fall out with a enemy. Throughout the poem, the author uses figure of speech, symbolism, and Imagery to perfectly set the tone to explain exactly what can happen if you let your anger escalate. Also if you don’t forgive an individual that you have conflict with, you will never be at peace with yourself.
The structure of this poem is a short and expresses the escalated repercussions that can occur if you don’t let go of a grudge. The stanzas are rhymed. The rhyme schemes follow the AABB pattern.

For instance the third stanza (line 10) reads, “ Till it bore an apple bright.” The tree bores an apple, that apple metaphorically epitomizes Blake’s theme to attest just how contaminated the apple is. The apple is a metaphor for the “fruit” of his hatred. The irony in the apple is the fact that an apple is a healthy fruit. However, in regards to the poem the apple is rotten, which means it’s bad for you. “And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine.” The story of Adam and Eve connects to the apple because it clarifies that the apple becomes a desirable commodity, due to the fact that both the enemy and speaker wants to obtain the apple. The apple became a desirable commodity to Adam and Eve when they were told that they couldn’t eat it.The last few stanzas of the poem sums up the fate of enemy, “And into my garden stole. When the night had veil’d the pole. The enemy tried to get one step ahead of the author and steal the apple from the tree. Despite this stunt the author became victorious because the next morning he found the enemy dead beneath the