A Poison Tree

Theme

Anger
The basic humanemotion which sets the events of this poem in motion.Although it is not necessarily wrong in itself,how we go about dealing with anger is extremely important.

Deception
The speaker bottles things up and does not talk about his feelings to his enemy.The enemy sneaks into the garden in the dead of night to take the fruit.

Communication
The poet communicates a direct moral lesson to the reader about the disastrous consequences of his own failure to communicate with another person.

Moral Values
Forgiveness
Truthfulness
Rationality and moderation

Place
Persona's garden

Time
From morning until night for a period of time