A Poison Tree by William Blake is a short poem about life in general. The poem teaches its readers a valuable lesson about anger. Anger has power over ones" mind and actions. If a person holds in their feelings, especially anger, it can pull that person down emotionally as evident in the poem A Poison Tree. This poem written by William Blake describes the darker emotions such as anger, hatred and Schadenfreude. The poem refers to apple bright in the garden which may lead readers to infer a Biblical reference to the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good...
A Poison Tree by William Blake should be read by everyone. The reason is many of us deal with anger from day to day. The story revealed by the poem is an example of what a person should not do. A person should not have to live day by day worrying about something that made him or her angry. A person should just either forgive and forget or tell the person of the anger. Controlling anger is the lesson everyone needs to realize and learn. That is a lesson that the poem A Poison Tree teaches readers very well.