Read the poem and answer the question below
Which of the following is one of the themes of the poem?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Suppressing anger
Suppressing anger is one of the themes of the poem.
As the poem opens, the speaker describes how he was angry with his friend. Still, he told his friend he was angry ("I told my wrath"), and presumably why he was angry, and his anger disappeared.
"I was angry with my foe:
I told it not, my wrath did grow."
The speaker describes a different scenario, now. He was once angry with his "foe" (his enemy), but didn't tell him about it. Since the speaker did not talk about his anger ("I told it not"), his anger got bigger and bigger ("my wrath did grow"). Thus, the author is suppressing his anger.