A Poison Tree Poem by William Blake

Honors English IV December 11, 2009 The newspaper of A Poison steer by William Blake is about irritation and offense. If one were angry with a friend, that wrath would eventually subside if one were angry with a foe, however, and if left unbridled or left to simmer that anger would not subside and would grow. His numbers offers insight into what anger does if one watered it in fears, / Night and sunrise with their tears / and sunned it with smiles, / and with soft deceitful wiles (547 l. -10 Wood). The poem is appropriate for Songs of Experience and not Songs of Innocence because it portrays something that children do not do seethe with anger for a long period of time. Children forgive and forget easily, adults do not. Adults tend to extend grudges and seethe with anger until something interrupts it or changes it, but children have simpler minds and thus simpler aspects of anger that may not last a long time.The themes and images of Composed upon Westminster Bridge, kinsfolk 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth classifies him as a typical Romantic poet of his time. Wordsworth shows only the dish antenna of London and uses simple language to get his point across. The major theme of the poem is nature, and he only shows the beauty of the landscape, not the destitution and territory that truly was London during the Industrial Revolution.Wordsworth transfigures the truth with his imagination, saying that everything was all lustrous and glittering in the smokeless air (560 l. 8 Wood) when really the urban center was ridden with pollution and smog. Wordsworth also shows and absolute sense of awe for the beauty of what he is seeing, and turns away everything that is ugly about it. Wordsworth sees only the beauty of looking from a bridge in the morning and turns away all the bad things cerebrate to the people of the area, a characteristic of a Romantic.