Question

Anger and hatred corrode our soul. Explain with reference to the poem ‘A Poison Tree.’

Answer 1

Blake's "The Poison Tree" from his Songs of Experience is about how nursing anger and hate corrodes our souls. The poem begins by stating that: I was angry with my friend/I told my wrath/My wrath did end. ... It describes how this hate, unconfessed, grows like a plant and takes over the narrator's soul.