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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. <u>The more the speaker keeps his feelings to himself, the more that tree grows.</u>
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.