A Poison Tree And The Cask Of Amontillado Analysis

In “A Poison Tree” by William Blake and “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe have the same concept in the matter of characters and conflicts. In the poem by Blake, the speaker of the poem is angry with its “Foe” but the foe doesn’t know of the feelings of the speaker. In the short story by Poe the main character Montresor was furious with Fortunato, the other main character, for reasons that Fortunato is not aware of and same with the reader. The poem and short story are similar because along with the character conflict, the reader isn’t aware of the reasons for the anger of both the speaker of the poem and of the main character, Montresor, of the short story.

In “A Poison Tree” the speaker of the poem is mad at both his friend and his foe. But the speaker talks to their friend and solves the problem, he didn’t do such thing for the foe. The speaker let the anger grow and build up. “I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe, my wrath did grow.” In “The Cask of Amontillado” similar things were going on. …show more content…
In “The Cask of Amontillado” Poe uses the idea of Amontillado, which is a type of wine, to seek out his revenge plot on Fortunato. “Amontillado!” Fortunato says “Come, let us go” said Montresor. Montresor was luring Fortunato into the catacombs for the revenge that he seeks dearly. In “A Poison Tree” the symbol is the apple. The apple represents the anger of the speaker, it can also represent poison. “Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine, and he knew that it was mine.” The speaker of the poem is saying that his apple tree grew an apple and his foe took the apple, knowing that it was the speaker’s apple, he still took it, which allowed the speakers anger to grow. The similarity that these examples show is that both William Blake and Edger Allan Poe used symbolism in their poem and short