Essays on a Poison Tree

In Williams Blake’s “A Poison Tree” from his wildly popular work Songs of Innocence and Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul (1794), Blake addresses the “poisonous” results of issues gone unresolved. The poem’s title is entirely fitting in that it provides...

“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...

In the poems ‘London’, ‘Beach Burial’, ‘A poison Tree’,’ The Garden of Love’,’ Journey of the Magi’ and ‘Ulysses’ by Blake, Slessor, Eliot and Tennyson, simple images of objects, actions and ideas are used to develop universal themes of life, death, social decay, religion and...