’A Poison Tree’ by William Blake - Analysis for Edexcel Eng Lit GCSE Conflict Anthology

Summary of Key Points Context Blake was a C18th artist as well as poet and he combined these talents to publish ’illuminated books’. Song of Innocence and Songs of Experience are his two best known collections with ’A Poison Tree’ published in the latter. This work presents people as cynical and exploitative, especially of children. An early Romantic, Blake was interested in social justice and against the negative effects of the industrial revolution. He despised the Church of England, with its unnatural de