William blake

Both the speakers in “Infant Joy” and the “Introduction to the Songs of Innocence” had the correct determination, as Robert Gleckner describes it, for the reader to interpret the poems. The apple would then stand for all the evilness in the world. But unlike the other poems, “A Poison Tree” isn’t as translucent. The reader was able to figure out who the speakers in the poems are and what each poem was about. The part when the foe stole into the speaker’s garden to steal the apple meant that he fell into one of the speaker’s lure and died the next day. The other speaker of the poem appears to be the guardian of the baby who’s pondering of a name for the two-days-old infant. The apple in the poem is symbolic of the speaker’s anger and the “soft deceitful wiles” or deceitful tricks that the speaker has in store for the foe. There are two speakers in this poem. The poison in the apple might have poisoned Adam and Eve.

A poem from the Songs of Experience is “A Poison Tree”. Again, Blake uses rhyming in this poem. The part, ”I am but two days old” indicate that one of the speakers in the poem is a baby. All the reader knows about the speaker is that the speaker holds a grudge for the enemy. “A Poison Tree”, however, is not a literal and clear.