A Poison Tree Analysis

I can candidly say that Wrongology by Kathryn Schulz is an enlightening read. The author puts forward her case for wrongology – a complicated subject throwing light upon all facets of being wrong and at fault. Her foundation being that people have been wrong about being wrong to start with. It’s no doubt delightful to be right, it uplifts our ego and that in a way is crucial for our survival. Seemingly according to Kathryn Schulz even though being wrong may be embarrassing it is critical for our personal development. Error is a part of human nature and cannot be terminated. If our choices are wrong, what we have to do is to review those choices and learn from them, eventually making better ones. Therefore one should not be afraid of making a mistake or being wrong. Mistakes help us revise our understandings and help us

In chapter 1 titled “Chloroform (CHCI3 )” of The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum, the most interesting story developed within the chapter was the unsolved mystery of eight deaths in a refuge called Odd Fellows Home. Frederic Mors, who claimed to be responsible for all these eight murders, confessed his own guilt in front of the district attorneys. As it was said, “To prove that these elderly residents had been poisoned, they needed solid evidence. [Rumors, suspicions, and anecdotes, a confession by a suspect who might just be crazy, weren’t enough to charge a man with murder.]” (Blum 13).

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” I agree with this statement, because everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. All a mistake does is show that you are human. What matters is what you do with your mistake.

Sun-flower,” and “The Lilly.” Wolfson argues that these three poems “tell a tale in three chapters,” (266) however each poem stands beautifully on its own only loosely an affiliated trilogy of different aspects of love. From plate 43, these short lyrics involve the personification of flowers. Often characterized for their delicateness and beauty, symbolizing love, and female sexuality, Blake uses botany to again establish a sense of sexual relationship within the poem. “My Pretty Rose Tree ” is constructed in two heroic quatrains written with an ABAB ACAC rhyme scheme. The speaker describes their temptation in being offered another flower (opportunity or other woman) as well as their protestation that he has his own “pretty rose tree” (Blake, Rose Tree 3) and does not need another. The outcome of his fidelity personifies the already feminized and objectified rose tree as jealous and dependent on the speaker for “tend[ing]” (6). In the trees jealousy, she only provides her barren “thorns” (8) for the speaker’s efforts in which he states is his “only delight” (8). Suggesting that the only delight a woman is capable of is the physical appearance. The thorns take on the Biblical symbolism of the crown of thorns in which Jesus wears up to his crucifixion to cause him pain and to mock his claim for authority. Similarly, the rose tree mocks the speaker’s possessive authority over her (as he

The poem creates the theme that holding in anger may lead to awful consequences through first person point of view by describing the poet’s struggle to release his emotions that eventually cause him to hurt his enemy. For instance, after stating that he told his friend about his anger, and his anger died, Blake says, “ I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.” This quote from the poem shows that this is written in a first person point of view. The poet then goes on to describe how he watered down his anger, and it continued growing. At the end,

William Blake’s A Poison Tree (1794) is a story that relates to all eras and addresses the pain that we as humans can impose on one another and the hurt and guilt that hinders our

First of all, mistakes are a clear sign that you are trying new things. It’s always good to try new things because when you do this you are growing. If you never try anything new, how can you improve? How can you change? The simple answer is, “You can’t”. In the Outsiders (written by S.E Hinton and published on 1967) Steve made the mistake of referring to him as "all brawn and no brain" and Darry nearly shattered his jaw. […] Darry had never really gotten

In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, each character holds a special connection to trees and each places different meaning in them. The motif of trees and plants represent a calming force, escape from hardship, and circle of life that can heal the wounds of slavery. Paul D and Sethe are two characters in particular who place unique meaning in plants and use them as a way to escape their painful memories and the horrors of slavery.

The “Philadelphia Poison Ring” in 1938 was caused by two people, cousins that were career criminals from Philadelphia. The leader was Herman Petrillo, but his cousin Paul Petrillo was also highly involved. Paul was known for insurance scams his entire life, and another cousin named Morris Bobler also joined and was highly involved in the process. Herman and Paul Petrillo were the two people responsible for this as they were convicted of 70 murders. Some being drownings and most being poisonings. The two cousins immigrated into the United States from Italy in 1910, and as soon as they showed up started criminal activity. The criminal activity started with small things such as theft, however the crimes grew darker and more serious until they committed their first murder in 1931. It all started with an insurance scam business, and how it worked was the business would take widows and find them new husbands were they would then be given their life insurance. The company would take it upon themselves to kill the new husbands so that the wifes can get their life insurance. Almost all of the husbands were killed with arsenic, which is an element that either is used alone or combined with an inorganic substance makes it deadly to almost any biological system. The symptoms of arsenic poisoning contain abdominal pains, destruction of red blood cells, shock, or a quick death. I could not find how the arsenic got into their victims bodies but on the toxicology

Often times others’ descriptions of erroring in their own lives hits close to home for one’s own life. Wes Moore in his book The Work depicts an anecdote where he says how he was mistaken to not take

Lorde uses the metaphor in the first line of her poem, “There are so many roots to the tree of anger/that sometimes the branches shatter/before they bear” (1-3). In this metaphor the branches stand in for different facets of oppression that many people face as described in intersectionality. Chin’s lines, “all day, bitter branches of things I cannot say out loud/sprout deviant from my neck/fuck you-you-fucking-racist-sexist-turd” present a much starker contrast (48-29). Chin’s use of branches stem from the result from microagressions of oppression in contrast to the branches in Lorde’s poem that stem the root cause. They also contrast in the tone.

In the trees by Thomas Wagner, Thomas uses a shift in diction to display how regrets can hold us back from progressing. Thomas starts off the poem with a strong shift in diction to set up the personification of the trees, “All of the trees packed together The leafless winter or the colorful spring They do a funny thing The trees they pull you back They hold you there” (Wagner 1). Using words in the beginning such as “funny” and “colorful” then to change such diction in the next stanza applying phrases like “pull you back” and “hold you”, these words are presented in such tone and context to amplify the personification by letting it stand out from the rest of the poem. Thomas also uses a different shift in diction later telling “I don't always

William Blake was a painter, engraver and poet of the Romantic era, who lived and worked in London. Many of Blake’s famous poems reside in his published collection of poems titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience. This collection portrays the two different states of the human soul, good and evil. Many poems in the Songs of Innocence have a counterpart poem in the Songs of Experience. The poem “A Poison Tree” is found in the Songs of Experience and it delves into the mind of man tainted with sin and corruption that comes with experience. In a simple and creative style, the religious theology of the Fall of Man is brought to life. The poem tells the story of how man fell from a state of innocence to impurity, focusing on the harmful repercussions of suppressed anger. Blake utilities many literary devices to successfully characterizes anger as an antagonist with taunting power.

Everyone, at some point in their life, has made a mistake. Sometimes we get lucky and only falter a little, making it through the problem relatively intact. Other times, we mess up a lot and have to fix what was damaged over a long period of time. However, the same is true for most, if not all cases—those who make the mistake learn from it. Often times, our failures teach us valuable lessons that we only gained because of the experience we gathered after messing up. I have personally achieved a wealth of knowledge and experience just from all of my own little mishaps, and a few major ones.

What might me a mistake to someone might be right for another person. But, mistakes do help a person distinguish between right and wrong. A mistake informs a person of what is accepted by the society. Mistakes are said to be the best teacher. When a person goes wrong while doing something, it stays in his mind forever. He doesn’t easily forget it and avoids repeating such mistakes. Mistakes are also indicators of risk involved. They inform us about what can possibly go wrong if a certain plan is carried out. They are similar to test points which check whether a particular procedure or step suits the task or the outcome that is