Poison Tree

Poison Tree
A poison tree by William Blake for me is a poem that expresses how anger can turn the nicest of feelings into a bad oneturning it as bad as poison. In the first stanza “I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe;
I toldit not, my wrath did grow”, is evident that the boy is really angry and also how the feelings for the friend are changing.
Is clear howtrough the poem the anger is being represented as something that grows slowly but firm as a fruit, if we see the apple as the maximum expression ofanger. When the speaker says “grew both day and night” (referring to his anger) and “bore an apple bright.” Yet another example of how theanger and the wrath grew steady as a deadly poison tree. “I was angry with my friend” seems like it was something he was willing to solve tillhe said what was wrong to his friend and ended up worse.
“And my foe beheld it shine” makes it more than clear that his enemy was a witness ofhis anger growing every moment of his life. “And he knew that it was mine” he definitely knew what was happening all along and did not doanything to solve the problem he just sat there and watched. In the last two verses “In the morning glad I see”, and, “My foe outstretchedbeneath the tree” we can perceive that his hate towards his enemy ended up killing him (the enemy) and it was a celebration motive for the boy.