William Blake's Metaphorical Language In 'A Poison Tree'

William Blake is an English poet, artist, and painter who is famous for his great works. He has been largely influential upon writers and artists through the ages. He studied engraving and grew to love gothic art. The Bible had an early, profound influence on him, and a lifetime source of inspiration that colors his life and works with intense spirituality. Basil de Sélincourt talked about William Blake’s theory of imagination in a section of his book William Blake. Sélincourt said that Blake sees the world as a world of imagination, and visions. In the book Sélincourt states that Blake claimed to experience some visions throughout his life, and Henry Crabb Robinson, the friend of Blake, tells Blake’s visions. In Robinson narration, Blake

At the beginning of the poem the speaker presents two scenarios. In the first, he is in tiff with his friend. He told his friend about his anger, then his anger disappeared. In the second Scenario, the same thing happened again, but this time the speaker is mad at his enemy, and kept his anger. So, his “wrath did grow.” There is a use of metaphorical language here, because anger doesn 't literally grow. So, growth here is a metaphor for the process by which one 's anger becomes greater and greater. The use of the word “growth” is just to make his anger concrete rather that abstract. In the second stanza he embodies his dark feelings toward his foe in a tree. As I said before, Blake started to use the tree as an important symbol in his works after his vision. Then speaker “waterd it in fears, Night & morning with my tears:”Again, there is use of metaphorical language.. He doesn 't literally water it with fears and tears. So, watering is here a metaphor for the development and increasing power of one 's anger. After that he “sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.” He gives fake smiles that makes his anger grows more. His anger makes the tree grows more until it eventually produces an "apple bright." Indeed, it is a poisonous apple that kills his "foe." The apple here is just a symbol of the end result of one 's potent rage. The speaker tells us that his foe "stole" into his garden. The garden

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is like a guided tour of Hell. It is divided into four pieces: The Argument, The Voice of the Devil, A Memorable Fancy, and Proverbs of Hell. The first two sections are The Argument and The Voice of the Devil. In these opening pieces, Blake tells us that good and evil aren 't like what we told that Heaven is good, and hell is bad. They 're just different kinds of energies, and both are needed to our existence, and keep the world going. A Memorable Fancy explains how Blake actually went on a visit to Hell. He “was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius.” Then he saw a “mighty Devil” tucked in black clouds flights over the sides of the rock with flame fire. While he was touring around, Blake says that he collected some of the Proverbs of Hell. Blake said: “Drive your cart and your plough over the bones of the dead.” Then he moves again to A Memorable Fancy. He said “I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.” How could a printing-house be in the hell? Inside the printing-house there were five rooms. In the first room Blake saw a “Dragon-Man” removes the rubbish. In the second room he saw a viper. In the third room he saw an Eagle with “wings and feathers of air,” and