Extract from the Prelude vs A Poison Tree

Inner Conflict - Prelude

“Were a trouble to my dreams”

“Troubled pleasure”

“O’er my thoughts there hung a darkness”

Inner Conflict - A Poison Tree

“I told it to my wrath did grow”

“I water’d it in fears, Night and morning with my tears”

“I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles”

Violence - Prelude

“I struck and struck again”

“Towered up between me and the starts”

“Trembling oars”

Violence - A Poison Tree

“he knew that it was mine”

“Into my garden stole”

“My foe outstrech’d beneath the tree”

“Night and morning with my tears”

Growth - Prelude

“Growing still in stature the grim shape”

“Back to the covert of the willow tree”

“No familiar shapes remained”

Growth - A Poison Tree

“My wrath did grow”

“Grew both day and night”

“My foe outstrech’d beneath the tree”