Beneath The Tree Rhyme Scheme

I found this poem very emotionally moving for me. It wasn’t just the story that I found interesting it was the fact that it made me look introspectively at my life and my decisions on how I choose to live. To me the author is describing an event when his stubbornness and anger got the best of him which ended in a human being dead. “I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” (lines 3-4) This line really hooked me when I found my own personality traits reflected in the poems line. The author did not have the strength to let go of his anger and instead it festered inside until he willed the tree to grow a poisoned apple. “In the morning outstretched I see, my foe outstretched beneath the tree.” (lines 15-16) Of course this is an extreme case of someone who isn’t able to

Even just looking at the title of the poem it is obvious there is a very distinct nod to nature in this piece. The nature in this instance seems to me to be a neutral force but when the tree is used for the authors impure business the tree turns into an evil symbol. “Till it bore an apple bright.” I would like to think that the trees poison was just another point of the trees beauty but when it is warped for a man’s evil purpose the tree is to blame while the man remains free. This poem really emphasizes powerful emotions and while it does not expressly say anything about the authors being so mad he could feel his blood boiling he allowed the readers to distinguish this for themselves. The piece of individuality found in the poem however I found when the author made it appear that he was going about his life and living like a regular person however this was not the case. Instead he was withdrawn and pulled into himself so as to hold onto his terrible feelings toward his old