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Subject: The Poison Tree. Explain the writers style...
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William Blake wrote:  The Poison Tree.  What is this writer's style?
What does the syntax reveal?  Where is the writer going with this
poem?

jerry e.
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Subject: Re: The Poison Tree. Explain the writers style...
From: pinkfreud-ga on 16 Mar 2005 16:26 PST
 
This may be use:

"A Poison Tree
This lyric is a subtle product of the voice of experience, using the
figure of the poison tree as a vehicle for describing the
psychological states of transferred hatred and anger. In an earlier
draft of the poem the speaker gives the fruit of his anger to his foe,
whereas here the foe is attracted to the apple because he knows it
belongs to the speaker. Critical speculation surrounds the
interpretation of both tree and apple in this poem: the most obvious
association is with the apple on the Tree of Knowledge in the Garden
of Eden, leading to identification of the speaker as the jealous God
of creation. Clearly the poem raises issues of the tone and attitude
of the speaker. Is he full of self-congratulation at the death of his
foe? Can the poem be read as simply a warning over the dangers of
repressed anger, for where is the remorse over the foe's death or the
speaker's conscience?"

http://www.newi.ac.uk/rdover/blake/notesexp.htm

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