A Poison Tree

This poem almost has a joking tone to it. The writer talks about creating his own enemy and how problems against someone just grow into a "poison tree" and just become a bigger and bigger problem. I absolutely can relate to this poem too because there is always that one person in your life that you just completely dislike. Most people don't face their deceitful feelings towards the person they dislike, and like the poem states with "watering it in fears" and "soft, deceitful wiles" shows that a person just covers their true feelings with fake smiles and are too scared to solve the problem in front of them. Eventually that hate takes over you which, in this poem, is represented by an apple and the foe "knew that it was mine." This poem also has a beginning and an end, a process of hate, that has a rhyme scheme of aabb which makes the hateful poem flow well through the process of hating. When a person really doesn't like another human being, this "poison tree" is the prime example.