ience Pg.39). Blake was fearful of his actions that would ultimately produce a "poison tree" that could entice and inflict pain on his enemy. Blake is showing some signs of a conscious such as creating something that was tempting and yet also deadly. However, the one instrumental difference from the Bible is that the serpent never had a conscious. Blake mentions that he, referring to the tree, "sunned it with smiles./ And with soft deceitful wiles" (Songs of Experience Pg.39). It is Blake's "deceitful wiles" that allow him to nurture this poison tree and return the deceit that Blake has received to his "foe." It is important to note that Blake's enemy didn't become so by stealing an apple from his tree. Blake was already angry with this man. Evidence of this can be seen in third stanza. The third stanza reads, "And it grew both day and night./ Till it bore an apple bright./ And my foe beheld it shine./ And he knew that it was mine" (Songs of Experience Pg. 39). Blake's foe "beheld it shine." If his enemy saw the apple then one
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