Blakey!!!

I knew that I would use some British poetry, preferably from the Romantic period, for a voice over/ narrative. This would help push the animation along, and support any minor sound effects. So I narrowed them down to a choice between Yeats and Blake.

Trawling through my personal books and books from the local library, took a while.

But finally, as if by fate, I found the perfect poem on the internet:

A Poison Tree by William Blake

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 water'd it in fears,
Night & 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 veil'd the pole:
In the morning glad I see
My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

Uncanny! The poem's start 3rd and 4th verses, are exactly like my animation. Ending how, my animation ends, at the bottom of the tree.

Apparently it is all about the Tree of Knowledge and Good and Evil. Very dark...