Zaid Asim's The Poison Tree Notes
THIS NOTES WERE MADE FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE AND SHALL NOT BE REPUBLISHED WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR (ZAID ASIM) THIS COPY WAS MADE FOR HUSSAIN PUBLIC SCHOOL I. Comprehension Questions – Answer the following briefly Question 1. What happened when the speaker expressed his anger? Answer: The anger ended when the speaker expressed his anger. --- Question 2. What happened when the speaker suppressed his anger? Answer: When the speaker suppressed his anger, it only grew. --- Question 3. How are the results different in the two instances? Answer: Expression of anger in the first instance relieves the person of all ill-feeling, whereas suppression of anger in the second instance poisons him even more because it grows. --- Question 4. When the poet is thinking about his anger, the picture of a tree comes to his mind. Which word in the first stanza suggests a tree? Answer: The word “grow” suggests a tree. The pronoun “it” also implies that the poet is talking about a...