Assignment MT1.2

Anger is often equated with fire or dynamite because it brings out the intensity within an individual that these two items possess. Dynamite can be used as a metaphor to describe anger because when it explodes, it is quick and sudden, just how people can react and change from being happy to angry in a blink of an eye. Anger is one of those emotions that can come and go really quickly, just like an explosion. Fire metaphorically describes anger because when an individual becomes angry, they physically undergo a process where their bloods starts flowing rapidly, adrenaline pumps through their body and like fire they get hot and red in the face. Also fire and explosions are easily containable when they are small such as when a child has a temper tantrum. On the other hand, when fires and explosions get too big, they are harder to control and can get out of hand such as a drunken fraternity guy.
In the poem, “A Poison Tree,” the author William Blake offers another metaphor for anger. He describes anger as the complete opposite as dynamite and fire. Dynamite and fire are quick, sudden, and intense, but his metaphor is more passive. He shows that anger is like a plant that grows slowly in “both day and night.” It grows and grows until it flowers or it “bores an apple bright.” Blake demonstrates that anger grows and builds up within an individual when it is held in. Instead of the plant growing and building up its’ anger with water, it is “watered in fears, night & morning with my tears.” He highlights that anger is not as brutish and sudden as described by dynamite, but it is more cautious and meticulously planned.

Anger = Plant
1. I absorbed the anger like the roots of a plant.
2. My face blossomed to bright red like an apple.
3. My growing anger flourished after he made that comment.
4. His anger photosynthesized out of control.
5. He makes my chloroplasts turn bright green.