A Poison Tree Poem Commentary - 774 Words

POEM COMMENTARY A POISON TREE BY WILLIAM BLAKE A Poison Tree is a poem written by William Blake which is themed around hate, anger and revenge. The poem is basically a metaphor or a piece of pathetic fallacy wherein the speaker has ascribed his feelings and state of mind to the form of a tree. William Blake wrote a series of poems called Song of Experiences, which were a collection of texts in which he shows the human spirit when it is confirmed to rules, resulting in strong emotions of anger, resentment and hatred. Throughout his life Blake was a dissenter; a rebel from the policies and regimes of the Anglican Church. Influences of this part of his life are seen in his poems as well. In A Poison Tree, the speaker expresses the†¦show more content†¦Vengeance seems to be the ending theme of the poem, as the speaker is shown to be content and â€Å"glad† with the result of his wrath. The poet uses a lot of imagery to express emotion and depict the situation. Each stanza in the poem has a simple rhyming scheme (AA, BB). The rhythm varies in all of the stanzas. The first and second lines of a stanza are in anapaestic dimeter while the third and fourth lines are in iambicShow MoreRelatedAnalysis of A Poison Tree Essay1370 Words   |  6 Pageswithin his social commentary. Similar to a fable, Blake weaves a poetically mystical journey for the reader, usually culminating in a moral lesson. One such poem, A Poison Tree, clearly illustrates some of William Blakes moral beliefs. With his use of imagery, as well as an instinctive knowledge of human nature, William Blake shows just how one goes from the light to the darkness (from innocence to experience) by the repression of emotions. If one were to read the A Poison Tree on a strictlyRead MoreLiterature and Language10588 Words   |  43 Pages: ex.9-1 The 1960 dream of high rise living soon turned into a nightmare. In this sentence, there is nothing grammatically unusual or â€Å"deviant† in the way the words of the sentence are put together. However, in the following verse from a poem, the grammatical structure seems to be much more challenging, and makes more demands on our interpretative processing of these lines: ex.9-2 Four storeys have no windows left to smash But in the fifth a chipped sill buttresses Read MoreA Picatrix Miscellany52019 Words   |  209 Pagestheir celestial archetypes, which were mentioned at the end of Book I, form the opening topic of this chapter. This is the subject of the ninth aphorism ot the pseudo-Ptolemaic Centiloquium. Next comes the story of a magical cure, taken from the Commentary of Ibn al-Dà ¢ja on this aphorism, which recounts how, in his youth, the author came to occupy himself with magic while testing Ibn al-Dà ¢ja’s prescription for the cure (pp.55-57). Then follows an excursus on sensory perception, including a quotation Read MoreStephen P. Robbins Timothy A. Judge (2011) Organizational Behaviour 15th Edition New Jersey: Prentice Hall393164 Words   |  1573 PagesSee J. P. Rushton and A. R. Jenson, â€Å"Thirty Years of Research on Race Differences in Cognitive Ability,† Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law 11, no. 2 (2005), pp. 235–295; and R.  E. Nisbett, â€Å"Heredity, Environment, and Race Differences in IQ : A Commentary on Rushton and Jensen (2005),† Psychology, Public Policy, and the Law 11, no. 2 (2005), pp. 302–310. Avery, McKay, and Wilson, â€Å"What Are the Odds? How Demographic Similarity Affects the Prevalence of Perceived Employment Discrimination†; and Raver