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A 3 page essay that compares 2 works by Blake and King. Poet William Blake in his eighteenth century verse and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in his twentieth century rhetoric each addressed issues of morality and ethics during their respective eras. Examination of Blake's The Poison Tree and King's Letter from Birmingham Jail reveals that while the form and content is extremely different, the intent of these writers was very similar in that they hoped to demonstrate to their readers societal errors in moral and ethical judgement. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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during their respective eras. Examination of Blakes The Poison Tree and Kings Letter from Birmingham Jail reveals that while the form and content is extremely different, the intent of these
writers was very similar in that they hoped to demonstrate to their readers societal errors in moral and ethical judgement. Blake The Poison Tree is part of Blakes 1794
collection of poems, Songs of Experience. The point of these poems, and their companion verses in Songs of Innocence, was to open the eyes of readers and force them to
reconsider issues of morality and ethics. In The Poison Tree, Blake addresses the insidious nature of anger and how it warps the person who harbors it. First of all, the
narrator says that he was angry with a friend, he tells the friend, and the anger ends. However, the narrator is also angry with a foe. In this case, the
anger is allowed to grow. Using imagery that connects the narrators anger to the original fall of Mankind in the Garden of Eden, the narrators vitriol produces an "apple" that
lures the foe to his doom. The implication is that the narrator, out of unresolved anger, tempted the foe and instigated his demise. As this suggests, the narrators anger corrupts
him from within and turns him into a murderer. Blakes Songs of Experience have been described as an "unforgettable condemnation of the spiritual dearth, cruelty and injustice that is lived
every moment by man in the modern city" (Kazin 40). In this collection of poems, Blake addresses the spiritually downtrodden and suggests that what is missing in their lives is
a "sense of the infinite" (Kazin 40). King In April, 1964, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested and jailed for leading a Civil Rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama
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