"A Poison Tree"

Read the following poem. What connections can be made between "A Poison Tree" and A Separate Peace. Make sure to use textual evidence to support your ideas.

A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I watered it in fears
Night and morning with my tears,
And I sunned it with smiles
And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,
Till it bore an apple bright,
And my foe beheld it shine,
And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole
When the night had veiled the pole;
In the morning, glad, I see
My foe outstretched beneath the tree.

--William Blake

Love Thy Neighbor

How does the following quotation apply to A Separate Peace and to the world around us? Use textual evidence to support your answer.

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves:
We do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we
hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate our-
selves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. It is not love
of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict
our world.
--Eric Hoffer

Love thy neighbor

How does the following quotation apply to A Separate Peace and to the world around us? Use textual evidence to support your answer.




The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves:
We do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we
hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate our-
selves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. It is not love
of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict
our world.
--Eric Hoffer