A Poison Tree TP-CASTT Example
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Connotation vs Denotation
By Jonathan Ayer
The differences and nuances between denotation and connotation are a popular topic to cover and review when discussing English grammar. In order for students to best understand and apply the use of tone in writing and literature, they must have a firm grasp of the distinction between what words denote and connote.
A Poison Tree by William Blake
Lesson Plans by Bridget Baudinet
”A Poison Tree” was published in William Blake’s 1794 poetry collection entitled Songs of Experience. As the title of the collection suggests, “A Poison Tree” delves into the darker side of the human mind, addressing the catastrophic results of suppressed anger.
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A Poison Tree TPCASTT Poem Analysis
Storyboard Text
- T - Title
- P - Paraphrase
- C - Connotation
- ANGER
- A - Attitude / Tone
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- S - Shift
- I hate this guy. I can't stand talking to him or looking at him or being near him or ...
- Oh hey, nice to see you!
- T - Title
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- T - Theme
- Why do you always make fun of my singing?
- Sorry. I make fun of everybody's singing.
- The poem will be about a mystical tree that poisons everything around it.
- The speaker bottles up his anger toward his enemy. He presents a false front and acts nicely toward the enemy while cursing him in his head. Eventually, his anger and deceit lead to tragedy. The enemy dies, and the speaker's corrupted moral compass causes him to feel a twisted happiness at this result.
- The man's anger is considered a poison. The tree and the apple are poisonous growths that, like anger, can kill.
- Blake uses words like "wrath", "foe", "deceitful", "wiles", and "stole" to convey the dark emotions of the poem. The speaker has a sinister and venomous tone.
- A shift occurs in the first stanza when the speaker goes from telling his anger to keeping it in. The poem gradually grows more sinister as it progresses from this point. The sentence lengths in the first stanza are short and simple, but they later increase as the speaker's wrath becomes more intense and his lies more frequent.
- After reading the poem, I realize that the tree is a symbol of the speaker's anger. As the speaker dwells on his anger, the tree grows poisonous fruit, suggesting that anger produces dangerous results.
- Expressing our emotions is a healthy way the deal with conflict.
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