A Poison Tree

Question 1

What is the message behind the poem?

Answer 1

The main message of the poem is to speak about your feelings if you withhold anger it grows inside and you and poisons your mind

Question 2

Define end stopping.

Answer 2

A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or closing parenthesis—or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period. A line is considered end-stopped, too, if it contains a complete phrase.

Question 3

Which quote presents the idea anger is controlling Blake?

Answer 3

“And with soft deceitful wiles”

Question 4

Name quotes that present religious elements in the poem?

Answer 4

“And into my garden-stole”

“Till it bore an apple bright;”