1 January 2013 AP Literature and Composition Poison Tree- Explained Anger is like a ticking time bomb. Its suspense keeps growing and growing until the point of destruction. Much like a ticking time bomb‚ William Blake conveys the building anger towards an enemy in the poem “Poison Tree”. In the poem the speaker is afraid to tell his friend he is angry with him. His friend eventually turns into an enemy. When the speaker shields his true feelings his anger grows to the point that it becomes
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“A Poison Tree” Poetry Analysis “A Poison Tree”‚ by William Blake is a poem of four stanzas‚ with a rhyme scheme of aa-bb-cc-dd-ee-ff-gg-hh‚ and in which the poet examines the negative effects of unresolved anger. Blake cleverly presents this idea by way of an extended metaphor in order to make the point that if you let anger fester and build up‚ deplorable actions may occur. Blake also employs allusions and tone to help convey this theme. An extended metaphor is a literary device that compares
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New Criticism on Poison Tree “A Poison Tree" is rightly an extended metaphor to describe the poet’s mental and emotional attitude towards enemy and the conflict between his inner and appearances. We use a metaphor when we use word to mean something different. Thus the poet has use the word "tree" not to describe the common green tree with green leaves and branches‚ but he means the great hatred that he has for his enemy. So we know that the central conflict in the poem is probably between friendship
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In the context of biology‚ poisons are substances that cause disturbances to organisms‚ [1] usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale‚ when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism. The fields of medicine (particularly veterinary) and zoology often distinguish a poison from a toxin‚ and from a venom. Toxins are poisons produced by some biological function in nature‚ and venoms are usually defined as toxins that are injected by a bite or sting to cause their effect
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How may of you believe that waste management and reduction is very important? Would you feel the same way if you were informed that other than being an eyesore‚ waste directly impact on your life? I do not think so most of you who believe in waste reduction. But I am here purposefully to ask all of you on how to save our environment. First I’m here to give some evidence about destroying the environment. In the Philippines‚ there are many calamities‚ typhoons‚ disasters. Many people died‚ there
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Appropriately‚ this is identical to the definition of control. That is because religion is a complex subject and "religion" is only a word. Like all words‚ it can mean anything we want it to mean‚ but in a discussion‚ it is important that we understand how the word is used. I believe it is impossible to give a satisfactory universal definition of religion. Because it crosses so many different boundaries in human experience‚ religion is notoriously difficult to define partly due to two problems: they are
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Romantics and William Blake was a part of the first. William Blake was an English poet and painter. He wrote a poem The Poison Tree. This poem is definitely one that speaks to me and the one I’ve chosen to analyze. “I was angry with my friend‚ I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end. I was a angry with a foe‚ I told it not‚ my wrath did grow.” Here the narrator is explaining how he was able let go of the anger he had towards his friend because he expressed his emotions to his friend. On the contrary
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Is Sugar poison? a) The startling Statement Opening I can’t say that I don’t eat sugar. I do. I mean even you eat sugar too. Sugar is in everything‚ from a bottle of coke to our and much more. But have you ever been told that maybe a little sugar won’t hurt? Wrong. The purpose of this speech is to persuade people that Sugar is bad and inform them about the dangers of added sugar. Is sugar sweet poison? It’s not our fault our population is overweight; sugar was once such a rare resource
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Poisonous Chinese Bread’s Adventure. It’s all started three days ago. I was produced in a steam bakery – the newest‚ the biggest‚ most modern bakery in Anhui Province. I started my life as flour to which was added some yeast‚ fibra‚ fat‚ water‚ many chemicals and‚ not too surprisingly as it was China‚ kilos of …… pesticides! You might think this is wrong‚ but in China it is regarded as right. You see pesticides make the bread taste better‚ give the bread the smooth feel‚ and‚ very importantly‚ increases
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