A growing Anger

Title: A growing Anger
Category: Literature / English | Words: 369 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

A growing Anger

A Growing Anger “A Poison Tree” by William Blake describes the growing anger in a man because of his hatred for an adversary. Blake compares the growing of anger to the growth and the budding of a tree. Blake also makes allusions to the story of betrayal by Adam & Eve in the Garden of Eden when they eat from the sacred tree. In the poem, the narrator is describing his constantly growing anger towards his …showed first 75 words of 369 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 369 total…disobeying his commands. Their expulsion from heaven is similar to the death of the foe from eating the narrator’s “poisonous apple” in the poem. Through his comparison of the anger to a tree and the allusions to the story of Adam & Eve getting expelled from Eden in the Bible, Blake describes the result of growing anger in a man. It shows that growing anger and hatred ultimately ends up being the downfall of man.

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