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Essay on poetry

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The document discusses and compares the poems "A Poison Tree" and "Anger Lay By Me". While both poems deal with speakers who are angry, they react differently. In "A Poison Tree", the speaker's anger grows internally until it is symbolized by a poisonous tree. In contrast, the speaker in "Anger Lay By Me" surrenders their anger externally by acknowledging their enemy has won. Overall, both speakers could not express their anger and were exhausted, but they responded in opposing ways by either internalizing or surrendering their frustration.

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Both poems ¡°A Poison Tree¡± and ¡°Anger Lay By Me¡± deal with speakers who are angry. The two speakers react in the same way. Do you agree? In both poems ¡°Anger Lay by me¡± and ¡°A Poison Tree¡± the speakers are angry. The two speakers are exhausted and they react in different ways. Firstly, the speaker (voice) of ¡°A Poison Tree¡± had his soul poisoned by his anger and the anger started growing inside of him because he didn't showed or expressed his feelings. In this quote the madness is developing inside the voice?s head. ¡°...and it grew both day and night.¡± He says ¡°...day and night¡­¡± because his foe can?t stop growing. Secondly, the anger of the speaker in ¡°A Poison Tree¡± was symbolized as a tree. When the anger grows we can say that also the tree grows. The apple tree was a metaphor for the wrath inside the soul of the speaker. In the poem Anger Lay By Me, the voice reacts in a different way, that different way was surrendering because his enemy won against him. In this quote the craziness is developing inside the voice?s head. ¡°..he's my true lord, and my doom¡±. because his foe can?t stop growing. All in all, In both poems the speakers react in different ways but what they share is that they couldn't take out his anger and that they were exhausted.

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Essay on poetry

  • 1. Both poems ¡°A Poison Tree¡± and ¡°Anger Lay By Me¡± deal with speakers who are angry. The two speakers react in the same way. Do you agree? In both poems ¡°Anger Lay by me¡± and ¡°A Poison Tree¡± the speakers are angry. The two speakers are exhausted and they react in different ways. Firstly, the speaker (voice) of ¡°A Poison Tree¡± had his soul poisoned by his anger and the anger started growing inside of him because he didn't showed or expressed his feelings. In this quote the madness is developing inside the voice?s head. ¡°...and it grew both day and night.¡± He says ¡°...day and night¡­¡± because his foe can?t stop growing. Secondly, the anger of the speaker in ¡°A Poison Tree¡± was symbolized as a tree. When the anger grows we can say that also the tree grows. The apple tree was a metaphor for the wrath inside the soul of the speaker. In the poem Anger Lay By Me, the voice reacts in a different way, that different way was surrendering because his enemy won against him. In this quote the craziness is developing inside the voice?s head. ¡°..he's my true lord, and my doom¡±. because his foe can?t stop growing. All in all, In both poems the speakers react in different ways but what they share is that they couldn't take out his anger and that they were exhausted.