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Answer 1

The option that best describes how the poet helps the reader understand the theme is:

3. The poet uses an extended metaphor of a tree that grows and bears fruit to convey the theme.

• This question refers to the poem "The Poison Tree" by William Blake.
• The poem's theme concerns the dangers of not expressing one's feelings. More specifically, the dangers of not expressing anger.
• The poet uses an extended metaphor to convey the idea above.
• In the poem, the anger that is not expressed is compared to a tree. The more the speaker keeps his feelings to himself, the more that tree grows.
• Eventually, that tree bears fruit. In other words, the bottled up anger eventually leads to a bad consequence.
• In the poem, the fruit is a poisonous apple that ends up killing the speaker's enemy.
• With the information above in mind, we can choose number 3 as the best choice. The poet uses extended metaphor to convey the theme.

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