Last poetry!!

The poem I'm doing this week is "A Poison Tree." I thought it was fitting with our lessons on allusions this week. This poem is alluding to the"Tree of Knowledge" in the bible. It statrs out with someone being mad with his friend but then he talked to him and everything was ok. Then he was angry with a foe and his anger grew into a tree that bore a red apple in his "garden." The foe is the devil in this situation. "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." The allusion is to God and his garden of Eden with the apple and his "foe." The apple and the grudge however is the first example of sin. He didn't forgive or talk to his enemy and his sin grew and grew until it was an apple; which then alludes to the apple in Genesis which is the first "sin" in the bible that casts out Adam and Eve. This is a 4 stanza poem with each stanza having 4 lines per stanza and an AB rhyme scheme.