LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Quietly planning revenge
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Openly poisoning his enemy
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Resorting to violence
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Trying to forget the whole thing
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Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker does not express their anger to their foe, and because of this, their anger worsens until it eventually grows into a poisonous tree. The speaker acts differently towards their friend than their foe, which makes the foe jealous and pushes them to steal from the speaker.
Detailed explanation-2: -He compares his anger with a plant or a tree. We water the plant for its survival, and the author watered anger with fear, and tears day and night. We sun the plant to grow, and the poet says that he sunned his anger with his smiles and lying tricks whenever he saw his enemy and his anger continues to grow.
Detailed explanation-3: -A Poison Tree: summary In summary, the speaker of the poem tells us that when he was angry with his friend he simply told his friend that he was annoyed, and that put an end to his bad feeling.
Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The speaker could have talked to his enemy and expressed his anger the way he did with his friend.