How does the imagery of the second stanza affect this poem?
It shifts the tone of the poem from serious to comic.
It gives the poem an optimistic or upbeat tone.
It imbues the poem with a deeply gloomy or melancholic tone.
It allows the poem's malicious tone to emerge and develop.
A Poison Tree
by William Blake
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
When the night had veil’d the pole;
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch’d beneath the tree.
