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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1811 words (7.24 pages) in the essay titled Analysis of A Poison Tree In choosing a poem from the English Romanticism era, I found one that particularly stands among others. A poem that had some depth, in that I couldn’t understand and feel what the poem was expressing at first glance. It is a poem that had a sense of mystery around it. These characteristics are exceptionally evident in William Blake’s poem A Poison tree. William Blake was a British poet and painter born in 1757 to a father who was hosier. Anger, wrath, and fear are very prominent in the short sixteen-line piece and engulf you from the start. In this paper, there will be an argument that A Poison Tree is a symbol for the lack of restraint and self-control in man. An argument that Blake, if referring to himself in the poem, uses himself as the serpent from the Garden of Eden, except as a serpent with a conscious.The first stanza juxtaposes the idea of friend and foe in a rather elegant way. The stanza reads, 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 (Songs of Experience Pg.38). The contrast in actions relating to a friend in distinction to a foe, is the relevant theme in this stanza. The different ways in which Blake, if he indeed is referring to himself in this poem, deals with anger towards a friend and conversely towards an adversary is striking. When angry with a friend, Blake is able to control his anger and enclose it in a finite sense. On the other hand, Blake shows litt... |
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