Themes
· Anger,
revenge and deadth
· Insincerity
and deceit
· The
danger of holding back one's feeling
· Bad
feelings like anger among friends and rivals
· Keeping
anger and its destructive consequences bottled up
Moral
Values / Lessons
· We
should not allow anger to control our life
· We
should express our feelings in a healthy way not bottle them up
· We
should make peace with everyone,friend and foe
· We
should be sincere even with our rivals
Literary
Devices
· Imagery
- Stanza 2 gives a good image of a tree being
well taken care of
· Symbol -
The tree is asymbol of life and anger seems to have been given life to grow
· Personification -
'the night has veiled the pole' means night has been personified as a
person putting veil or cover on the pole or light
· Diction -
'my wrath did grow' , 'my foe beheld it shine' , 'into my
garden stole'
· Metaphor -
The tree of anger like an apple tree stars bearing fruit
· Irony -
it is ironical that anger is a tree albeit a poison tree; that is, a
negative thing growing into something positive
· Simile -
'sunned it with smiles and with soft deceitful wiles ' means the
smiles and wiles are like the sunlight
· Repetition -
The word 'wrath' is repeated in stanza 1 for emphasis that anger is
poisonous
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