Category: A Poison Tree

Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard by Thomas Gray, A Poison Tree by William Blake and A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General’ by Jonathan Swift are all poems which address death from various perspectives and use various techniques to express this common theme. In this essay, I will investigate…

Ambiguity has been identified as one of the core aspects of poetry by many. Sir William Empson said of it: The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. This paper is a contemplation about the extent Empsons utterance it truthful to. To understand significance of ambiguity it is important to be aware…

A Poison Tree, written by William Blake and published in 1794, uses rhyming couplet form, symbolism and metaphors, and tone to convey message. The message of the poem is that humans water their anger and let it grow, whereas the poem tries to teach us that this is unideal. The poem The Poison Tree is…

Intro: Why does poetry speak to us in a way that grasps our attention and makes us want to discover more? Edmund Spensers Sonnet LXVII (1595) offers an insight into a huntsman who is in pursuit of a lover, William Blakes A Poison Tree (1794) teaches us of the underlining conflict between a friend and…

Intro: Why does poetry speak to us in a way that grasps our attention and makes us want to discover more? Edmund Spensers Sonnet LXVII (1595) offers an insight into a huntsman who is in pursuit of a lover, William Blakes A Poison Tree (1794) teaches us of the underlining conflict between a friend and…