Compare 'A Poison Tree' and 'You in Anger' with particular attention to the ways which diction form and structure contribute to meaning.
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Compare 'A Poison Tree' and 'You in Anger' with particular attention to the ways which diction form and structure contribute to meaning. Both poems are about anger and how they affect relationships. In poisons tree anger is repressed, destructive, the anger is the effect on the one who is repressing the anger where in you in anger expresses anger to renew everything, it focuses on anger which is expressed, and it is impact on the recipient. In The Poison Tree the author uses simple words, not complex, direct, almost childlike vocabulary. The stanza's follow a rhythm, which makes the poem easy to read as each line is a simple statement reinforced by rhyming couplets. The plant at the end of the last line in the first stanza is metaphorical; the tree takes a long time to grow, as the tree grows so does the anger, the metaphor takes over. The speaker is worried...


