Poison Tree
A Poison Tree The narrator speaks of "I" who is of the Old Testament God, renamed by Blake as Urizen, and the poison tree is his Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. ... Wrath becomes a poison tree. Or rather, since the tree represents the body this anger becomes a sick and infectious body, which as repressed it into hypocritical and thereby perverted honest emotion into wrath and murder. "I told it not" Becomes a confession on the narrators part reveals that he nurtures his repressed wrath into a tree of deceitful friendship which he intends for his foe, tempting him to steal into his garden and so eat the enticing forbidden fruit.