What Dread Hand And A Poison Tree: Literary Analysis

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Jennifer Skogen and William Blake pieces of literature are very similar throughout the whole piece. Skogin’s book, What Dread Hand, and Blake’s poem, A Poison Tree, have themes of friend anger and betrayal. Although Blake wrote his poem in 1793, the theme can still be compared to Skogin’s novel, What Dread Hand, which was written over two centuries later. Both Blake and Skogen are trying to get the reader to understand what having anger with friends and betraying your friends really looks like. However, Blake expresses the theme more through idioms and personification, while Skogen expresses the theme through similes and imagery. Both Skogen and Blake want the reader to understand that friends can betray you and make you angry. Blake states