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Tamil Nadu Board 9th Standard English - Poem Unit 2: Book Back Answers and Solutions

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Unit 2: A Poison Tree

A. Answer the following questions in a sentence or two.

1. I was angry with my friend 
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

a) Whom does ‘I’ refer to?
    'I' refers to the poet.
 
b) How did the anger of the poet come to an end?
    The poet told his wrath to his friend, which helped him to end his anger.

2. And I watered it in fears 
Night and morning with my tears; 

a) What does ‘it’ refer to? 
    'It' refers to the poet’s anger with his foe.

b) How is ‘it’ watered?
    It is watered with tears

3. In the morning glad I see 
My foe outstretched beneath the tree 

a) How did the poet feel in the morning? 
    In the morning, the poet feels glad

b) Who is the ‘foe’ referred to here? 
    The 'foe' referred to here is someone who had done wrong to the poet or his enemy.

c) Why was the ‘foe’ found lying outstretched beneath the tree?
    The foe was found lying outstretched beneath the tree because he had died during the night.

4. And it grew both day and night, 
Till it bore an apple bright. 

a) What does ‘it’ refer to? 
    'It' refers to the tree.

b) What does ‘apple’ signify? 
    'Apple' signifies the anger of the poet

c) What grew both day and night?
    The poet’s wrath grew both day and night.

B. Complete the summary by filling in the given spaces with suitable words.

    Once the poet was angry with his friend. He expressed his (1) ……….. and it ended. They became friendly but when he grew angry with his foe, he (2) ………. it and allowed his anger to grow. Day and night he watered it with his tears allowing it to grow. He (3) ……….. his foe with false smiles and cunning tricks. The tree kept growing and yielded a bright apple which (4) ………. his foe to eating it stealthily during the night. The next morning the poet was happy to see his foe lying (5) ……….. under the tree.
Answer Key:
1. wrath or anger
2. did not tell
3. sunned
4. beheld
5. outstretched

C. Answer the following questions in about 80-100 words.

1. How did the poet’s anger with his friend end?
        The poet expressed his anger towards his friend as well as his enemy. But he specified the difference between two types of anger. He told that when he was angry with a friend, he convinced his own heart to forgive his friend.

         He sorted out the differences with his friend by expressing his anger to him and by discussing his own points of view with him. Even if he was hurt and he knew that his friend had done injustice to him, he would have tried his best to forget the past and end the feeling of vengeance in his heart. In this way, the poet’s anger, with his friend, came to an end.

2. Describe how his anger kept growing?
        The poet confessed that when he was angry with his enemy, he did not reveal his anger to his enemy. He feared that if he expressed his anger to him, his enemy would do harm to him. So he suppressed his anger. 

        Day and night he shed tears thinking about the ill or the injustice that had been caused by his enemy to him. Thus, he watered the tree of anger with his tears, allowing the anger to grow. He also aroused his anger with his false smiles and cunning tricks towards his enemy. 

        Since the poet kept his anger within himself and had his own fear and tears, his anger kept growing every day.

3. Describe the effect of the poisonous fruit on the ‘enemy’.
        The poet, William Blake, revealed his anger to his friend and the anger ended. But when the poet concealed his anger from his enemy, the anger grew. It grew like a tree that bore a bright apple. His enemy saw the shining apple. 

        Even though he knew that the apple belonged to the poet, he wanted to have it. So the enemy came secretly into the garden when it was night and ate the apple. In the morning, the poet’s anger changed into gladness when he found the enemy outstretched under the poison tree. 

        The apple in the tree of anger symbolizes the poisonous effect.
 

Poem appreciation.

D. Figures of Speech.

There is alliteration in the line: 
And I sunned it with smiles. 
The sound /s/ is repeated in the words ‘sunned’ and ‘smiles’.     

Pick out at least two instances of alliteration from the poem. 

1. I was angry with my friend
    Was – with

2. Till it bore an apple bright
    bore –bright

3. Night and morning with my tears
    morning - my 

E. Read the following lines from the poem and answer the questions that follow.

1. 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. 

i. Pick out the rhyming words.
    The rhyming words are ‘friend’ and ‘end’ in the first line, and ‘foe’ and ‘grow’ in the second line

ii. What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza? 
    The rhyme scheme of the stanza is aabb.

iii. Identify the figure of speech in the title of the poem.
    The figure of speech in the title of the poem is a metaphor.

2. And I water'd it in fears 

    Night and morning with my tears; 
i. What figure of speech is used in ‘watered it in fears’?
    The figure of speech used in "watered it in fears" is personification. It gives human attributes of "fears" to the act of "watering".