Ephesians 4:26
“Wherefore putting away lying, speak
every man truth with his neighbor:
For we are members one of another.
Be ye angry, and sin not:
Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: neither give place to the devil.”
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Strong lines
- “The
allusion portrayed in Blake’s poem, “A Poison Tree,” suggests that
God wants us not to let the sun go down on our anger.”
- “By
giving the anger a physical presence, the tree, he gives substance
to the otherwise abstract concept of growing anger.”
- “This
leads to sin as he kills his foe, and like Adam and Eve, Eve’s inability
to control her urges and Adam’s unwillingness to confront the problem,
grow into primal sin.”
- “The
tree then produces an apple, which is an allusion to the apple that
Eve ate, that was filled with evil, as is the one from the poison
tree.”
- “The
main character symbolizes the serpent, trying to hurt, and to deceive
with a bribe.”
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