Read the poem entitled "the 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 watered 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 veiled the pole; in the morning, glad, i see my foe outstretched beneath the tree. which statement best describes the poem’s use of language? blake uses images of plants to show nature’s bounty. blake reveals emotions being cultivated like a garden. blake presents ripe fruit to question the duration of beauty. blake explains the planting process to suggest man’s hard work.

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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