A poison Tree

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The narrator speaks of "I" who is of the Old Testament God, renamed by Blake as Urizen, and the poison tree is his Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Instead of merely exploring wrath as the consequence as repressed anger, this poem incarnates wrath as an object. Wrath becomes a poison tree. Or rather, since the tree represents the body this anger becomes a sick and infectious body, which as repressed it into hypocritical and thereby perverted honest emotion into wrath and murder.

"I told it not" Becomes a confession on the narrator's part reveals that he nurtures his repressed wrath into a tree of deceitful friendship which he intends for his 'foe, tempting hi



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Approximate Word count = 465
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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