In william blake’s poem “a poison tree,” the tree stands for ……….
a. the need to eat and drink
b. nature’s beauty
c. the speaker’s opponent
d. the speaker’s fury

the poem: a poison tree

i was angry with my friend:
i told my wrath, my wrath did end.
i was angry with my foe:
i told it not, my wrath did grow.
and i water’d it in fears,
night and morning with my tears:
and i sunned it with smiles,
and with soft deceitful wiles.
and it grew both day and night,
till it bore an apple bright;
and my foe beheld it shine,
and he knew that it was mine,
and into my garden stole

D: the speaker's fury

Explanation:

In William Blakes's poem "A poison Tree," the tree stands for the speaker's fury, which ended well when he was angry with his friend and, by communicating, it was resolved. But his harboring the anger against his foe , it became a tree that grew, bearing fruit contaminated with evil , despite being attractive, which eventually was consumed by his enemy.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”