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Analysis Of Beneath The Tree By Billy Collins

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This poem literally is saying that a man is mad at his friend and tells him he is angry. As a result of this the wrath ends. He also is angry with his foe and he doesn’t tell him about his hate and his anger grows. He tried to disguise his anger but it keeps growing and festering inside of him, until the progression of his anger grows like a tree and causes an apple to sprout. “And it grew both day and night. / Till it bore an apple bright.” Then his friend figures out he is angry at him and went to the tree was and eats the apple and dies because the apple was poisoned by the friend’s hate. “And into my garden stole. / My foe outstretched beneath the tree.” Metaphorically the poem is saying that hate and anger can destroy relationships
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