William Blake's "A Poison Tree"
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The Poisoned Tree by William Blake
The poisoned tree of poem becomes associated with the tree of knowledge of good and evil that was in eden. And now the poem is an indictment, not of the enemy, but of the first person narrator who is essentially the serpent in his own garden,. That's really his own faull. It raises questions then, of course, of who is the enemy? Is this enemy actually outside person, or is it blake himself? So by the time that the poem ends, even though it's a pretty straightforward story, it has all of these multi layered levels of possible potential a exploration and interpretation.
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