"A Poison Tree"

Anger grows and kills. The poet William Blake develops this idea with images of a tree and apple.

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Fire and Ice, The Gift of the Magi, The Stolen Party, The Cask of Amontillado, A Poison Tree, Tim Burton, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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  1. wrath
    belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong
    I was angry with my friend:
    I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
  2. foe
    a personal enemy
    I was angry with my foe:
    I told it not, my wrath did grow.
  3. deceitful
    marked by deliberate deceptiveness
    And I watered it in fears,
    Night and morning with my tears:
    And I sunned it with smiles,
    And with soft deceitful wiles.
  4. wile
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
    And I watered it in fears,
    Night and morning with my tears:
    And I sunned it with smiles,
    And with soft deceitful wiles.
  5. bear
    bring forth
    And it grew both day and night,
    Till it bore an apple bright.
  6. behold
    see with attention
    And my foe beheld it shine.
    And he knew that it was mine.
  7. steal
    move stealthily
    And into my garden stole
  8. veil
    to obscure or conceal
    When the night had veiled the pole
  9. pole
    one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere
    When the night had veiled the pole
  10. outstretched
    fully extended especially in length
    In the morning glad I see
    My foe outstretched beneath the tree.
Created on Mon Sep 22 11:09:33 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Sep 22 13:28:51 EDT 2014)

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