A Poison Tree

1. A Poison Tree By: Juan Gonzalez

2. William Blake November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827

3. Historical Context • Literary Genre Romanticism (European) • 1798- 1832 • he had a love for nature • his focus was on the common person

4. Industrial Revolution • Blake opposed the Industrial Revolution and the factory system • he bound his own books by hand • he felt factories alienated workers by turning them into machinery • goods were uniform as opposed to handcrafted, and he thought it disconnected them from humanity

6. I was angry with my friend:I told my wrath, my wrath did end.I was angry with my foe:I told it not, my wrath did grow.And I watered it in fears,Night and morning with my tears;And I sunned it with smiles,And with soft deceitful wiles.And it grew both day and night,Till it bore an apple bright.And my foe beheld it shine.And he knew that it was mine,And into my garden stoleWhen the night had veiled the pole;In the morning glad I seeMy foe outstretched beneath the tree. A Poison Tree

7. I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe, I told it not, my wrath did grow. • the speaker was…then he… then…

8. being watered? • being sunned? And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.

9. product • who notices the fruit? And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine,

10. speaker’s foe • his feelings And into my garden stole When the night had veiled the pole; In the morning glad I see My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

11. THE END