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"A Poison Tree" is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his ''Songs of Experience'' collection. It describes the narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions which eventually lead to murder. The poem explores themes of indignation, revenge, and more generally the fallen state of mankind. ==Background==
The ''Songs of Experience'' was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ''Songs of Innocence.''〔Gilchrist 1907 p. 118〕 The two books were published together under the merged title ''Songs of Innocence and Experience, showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul: the author and printer, W. Blake''〔Gilchrist 1907 p. 118〕 featuring 54 plates. The illustrations are arranged differently in some copies, while a number of poems were moved from ''Songs of Innocence'' to ''Songs of Experience.'' Blake continued to print the work throughout his life.〔Davis 1977 p. 55〕 Of the copies of the original collection, only 28 published during his life are known to exist, with an additional 16 published posthumously.〔Damon 1988 p. 378〕 Only 5 of the poems from ''Songs of Experience'' appeared individually before 1839 with〔Bentley 2003 p. 148〕 "A Poison Tree" first published in the 1830 ''London University Magazine''.〔Bentley 2003 p. 473〕 The original title of the poem is "Christian Forbearance,"〔Davis 1977 p. 56〕 and was placed as number 10 in the Rossetti manuscript,〔Raine 2002 p. 32〕 printed on a plate illustrated by a corpse under a barren tree. The body was shown in a similar manner to the crucified corpse of Blake's "A Negro on the Rack" in John Gabriel Stedman's ''Narrative''.〔Davis 1973 p. 56〕
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