In stanza one, the poet describes the anger against his friend, which he then tells him of. Then he gets angry again with his enemy, he doesn’t tell his enemy about this anger. So then his anger grows.

The word ‘wrath’ suggests extreme anger, a lot of anger.

The poet uses repetition of words like ‘wrath’ and ‘anger’ to emphasise the difference between friends and enemies.

Stanza two introduces the image of his anger growing in him like a poisonous tree. The words ‘I watered it in fears’ and ‘I sunned it with smiles’ mean that behind al

The effect of the alliteration in ‘sunned’, ‘smiles’, and ‘soft’ is to give out that effect of sssss, which sounds quite scary and sly.

The poem is organized into four stanza’s using short lines and an aabb rhyme scheme. This structure is appropriate for the poem because I can understand it, it is a simple poem, it is not all confusing and you can understand it easily, but at the end the enemy dies and nobody would guess this. This also tells a short story.

The next morning the poet writes that he sees his enemy beneath the tree. On the poem it says ‘My foe outstretched beneath the tree,’ for the last line, which I find really sad. He feels glad, happy and relieved as shown by the word ‘glad’.

The next stanza describes how the poison tree grows an apple. It is very tempting as shown by words like ‘bright

Some topics in this essay:
William Blake, Poetry Essay, angry enemy, friends enemies, eat apple, anger anger, tells story, apple enemy, grows apple,