A poison tree Flashcards
what person narrative is the poem in?
first person.
what does the first stanza of the poem suggest?
the wrath of god / religion.
what does the second stanza depict?
the narrators internal conflict and that the narrator feeds their anger.
what is the extended metaphor in the poison tree?
it is an extended metaphor of their anger growing like a tree. anger=natural
what do the words in the title of the poem connotate with ?
the word poison connotates with pain death and illness.
the word tree connotates with nature.
what structural techniques occur at the end of every line in the poem?
end stopping and rhyming couplets.
what quote suggests that the narrator feeds their anger?
’ and i water’d it in fears,
night and morning with my tears;
and i sunned it with smiles,
and with soft deceitful wiles.’
what does the quote ‘when the night had veil’d the pole:’ suggest?
this could suggest everything was happening when the narrator was asleep.
what doe the quote ‘in the morning glad i see my foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.’ suggest?
it suggests the the narrators internal conflict has killed their relationship with their ‘foe’ or the they have killed their ‘foe’.
what does the narrator call the person that they are angry at?
‘Foe’
