Explication of the Poison Tree
The title Poison Tree suggests the idea of the tree being a source of to cause death, destruction, sickness, depression,hatred and anger. The poet of the poem is the speaker of the audience speaking to the reader. Throughout the poem, the poet is telling the story of how he killed his enemy. We are expected to know about the tree being the source of death. The language style the poet speaks is informal suggesting that the poet is telling a story. During the whole of the poem the tone of speaker’s attitude gives is almost frightening, and bizarre feeling after reading. Making you question what the author was thinking. Four stanzas with a rhyme scheme of a,b ,b, c, c, d, d, e, e, f, f, g, g, h, h, l, l, are what