Comparing A Poison Tree 'And A Total Stranger One Black Day'

The Interlopers by Saki and Poison Tree by William Blake are both very similar in how they show how grudges should not be held onto. In both of these stories, people die because of their selfish and unreasonable grudges. In “Poison Tree” and in “The Interlopers” two grudges end. In “Poison Tree” It states “I was angry with a friend: I told my wrath; my wrath did end.”

For example, the narrator states that “Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood at the leaves, blood at the roots” (2). Trees are symbolic of life and are the foundation blocks of culture itself. While the description of the trees may be considered unsettling to the audience, the society the tree represents is not fazed by the revolting scenery, despite its morally wrong doings. Those born into such culture adapt all the morals and ideology of that culture, thus making it difficult to identify the faults within one’s own society. Consequently, ignorance unknowingly spawns within these societies and results in humanity being incapable to take action against it. In addition, Abel’s diction plays a severe role in conveying the thematic message. Within stanza one, the author starts out with the line “Southern trees bear strange fruit” (1). The first thing that comes to one’s mind about fruit is a pleasant, sweet feeling. Yet, as the reader continues, it is discovered that this ‘fruit’ is nothing but the product of murder. Throughout the poem, it is never addressed as murder, but simply as a fruit, which completely diminishes the extremity and seriousness of the circumstances. Metonymy, a form of

The poem creates the theme that holding in anger may lead to awful consequences through first person point of view by describing the poet’s struggle to release his emotions that eventually cause him to hurt his enemy. For instance, after stating that he told his friend about his anger, and his anger died, Blake says, “ I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” This quote from the poem shows that this is written in a first person point of view. The poet then goes on to describe how he watered down his anger, and it continued growing. At the end,

Hate is an awful thing. Hate and resentment can cause death. There are many instances where this is shown. For instance, Romeo says, Forbid Tybalt from going

In the 3 pieces Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare, and Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, experiencing hatred causes characters to lie to people they love. In all of the stories, they are manipulated and forced through hatred to lie about who they are, what they are doing, or what something is. Lennie in Of Mice and Men is forced to lie about who he is, Romeo and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet have to lie about their marriage due to a feud, and in Into the Woods, the Baker and his wife lie about beans and what they do to steal from a child. In these 3 pieces, hate impacts love for others by the characters’ experience of hate forcing them to lie to the people they love.

Vengeance is monster, a monster that can grasp you and bring you to the depths of your soul; it can control you like no one else can. Vengeance has grasped characters as well, characters like the sadistic Montresor, and an utterly conflicted man. Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “A Cask of Amontillado” depicts a murderer, a vengeful soul, and a sadist, this man is Montresor. Montresor decides to seek revenge for an inexcusable act of insult from his dear friend, by trapping him deep inside the catacombs, with no one to hear. Similar to Poe’s short story, “A Poison Tree” from William Blake displayed a conflicted man who is happy, sad, and finally angry. Once his anger overtakes him he decides to please his instinct and murder the foe he was

In the tenth line of Blake’s poem, he uses a metaphor “Till it bore an apple bright,” to symbolize the blossoming of his anger. It is noteworthy that the apple is taking on a being of its own, and it also shows the substantial amount of energy it holds. The apple represents all of the suppression of frustration or anger that the speaker has for his enemy. He never releases whatever problem he had with his enemy off his chest, so instead of expressing his thought like he did with his friend, and working it out together, his anger and bitterness slowly grew. Now, the tree is no longer a figure of speech, but it actually produces an offspring and an entity in its own.

One day the poet and her mother discussed about the walnut tree which they have in their backyard, this is not an ordinary tree for them, lots of emotions and feelings of them are attached with this tree the poet and her mother struggle to decide whether they will have this walnut tree on their property or not, they will be able to pay off their home’s mortgage (Messineo, 2014 , p.n.d), if they choose to remove the tree and sell it for the lumberman. However, if they want to keep it and be faithful to what the tree represents such as father’s memory, they will face the reality that the roots would smash the house and then owe a debt or worse, the poet used “figurative language” in this poem, “Likely..... Storm....will churn.... its dark boughs,” this phrase is the example of the “figurative language” which shows the tough time, diversity and difficulty in their life. They didn’t want to cut it down but during this

a. If you worked as a paralegal for the defense team, what arguments would you make to convince the court to suppress the evidence? A motion to suppress is a request that the court prohibit the use of certain evidence at the trial. The police can enter a residence if there has been a shooting there. Therefore, the police could enter the shooters apartment to look for the shooter, for the weapon, and possibly a victims. Fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine is evidence that is derived from an illegal search or interrogation is inadmissible.

“My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.”

The wise mind of Mahatma Gandhi once said; “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” By getting or attempting to get revenge every time someone upsets you, the issue is never fully resolved meaning it could resurface and bite back harder the second time. In ”A Cask of Amontillado”, by Edward Poe, the author uses irony to show how Fortunato’s death was due to Montresor’s hatred. Similarly, in the poem “A Poison Tree”, by William Blake, the author uses figurative language to show how the enemy was killed because of the narrator’s anger. In both texts, the two characters were once friends and the enemies are being deceived. Poe and Blake use figurative language and irony to show how hatred and anger can lead to deception.

Kind, supportive, and uplifting, friends are wonderful, great companions. They always are there for you and have your back no matter what the situation. But when friends disagree, what started as a lighthearted conversation can soon turn feverish, and when a person is wronged, they seek revenge. The authors of the two texts “The Cask of Amontillado” And “A Poison Tree” show this betrayal precisely in the two writings. “The Cask of Amontillado”, published in November of 1846 by Edgar Allen Poe, Is the story of two friends, one a wine connoisseur and the other is from an affluent family. When the connoisseur (Fortunato) insults the wealthy man (Montresor), Montresor wants to get revenge. He successfully reaps his revenge by claiming to Fortunato that there is a cask of Amontillado, a rare and expensive wine, in the catacombs.Fortunato is beckoned into the catacombs by the expectation of wine, but is soon trapped in by his now adversary. There was no wine after all. In ‘A Poison Tree”, A man has been pirating his narrator's apples, and he was not going to allow him to get away with it. The man murders the other man and appears to be satisfied when he is laying on the ground the next morning.

Hatred is a poison constantly polluting the thoughts and actions of society and its inhabitants. As a result, hatred plays a big symbolic role in the book. Two characters act to personify hatred; these characters are Roland Weary and Paul Lazaro. An ever-burning hatred influences both men 's behavior. Weary’s animosity stems from the treatment he received during his younger years. In his youth, “He was unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and he smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed"(Vonnegut 44), causing other local kids to pick on and ditch him. The relentless mistreatment of his peers forced him to make a coping mechanism that involved his preying on those who were weaker than him. This coping mechanism followed him even through the war. During the war, he met two scouts and formed an

William Blake was a painter, engraver and poet of the Romantic era, who lived and worked in London. Many of Blake’s famous poems reside in his published collection of poems titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection portrays the two different states of the human soul, good and evil. Many poems in the Songs of Innocence have a counterpart poem in the Songs of Experience. The poem “A Poison Tree” is found in the Songs of Experience and it delves into the mind of man tainted with sin and corruption that comes with experience. In a simple and creative style, the religious theology of the Fall of Man is brought to life. The poem tells the story of how man fell from a state of innocence to impurity, focusing on the harmful repercussions of suppressed anger. Blake utilities many literary devices to successfully characterizes anger as an antagonist with taunting power.

The meaning of the poem A Poison Tree is how hatred can be a powerful weapon that can lead to both physical and mental injuries if not controlled on time. In the first stanza of the poem the speaker gets angry with a friend and a foe. The speaker seizes their wrath with the friend, however, the speaker allowed their wrath to grow with their foe, “I was angry with my foe; / I told it not, my wrath did grow.” Throughout the second stanza, the speaker grows their wrath with mixed emotions, “And I water’d it in fears, / Night & morning with my tears: / And I sunned it with smiles, / And with soft deceitful wiles.” As the speaker kept growing their wrath, it blossomed to form new anger, new tricks and plans for destruction, “And it grew both day