Today, for National Poetry Day, our writing staff has decided to honor the poem "A Poison Tree". The poem has some very interesting word choices. Such as : wrath, beheld, bright, and grow. The word wrath gives a clear insight into the emotional state of the speaker and the word beheld, to look or see, gives the poem an old fashioned feeling. The way the pies is written makes it seem like the speaker is reflecting on past actions and emotions. The syntax, or sentence structure, is rather unusual as well. The syntax is definitely unlike how people would speak and write in the modern era. It uses a lot more linking verbs than it does action verbs. For example, the author write "my wrath did end" instead of "my wrath ended". This unusual sentences