... first person whereas "The Tyger" is not making "A Poison Tree" more personal and more challenging. Evil, good and salvation is shared between both of these poems. Water, a spiritual cleanser, is mentioned in both poems. Water seems to symbolize that no matter how much evil exists salvation is possible because where there is evil there is also good. Both poems show this coexistence ... happened and then upon reflection he begins to admire the mouse for his communion with the earth especially when he compares it with man's relationship with nature: "An' cozie here, beneath the blast, Thou...

• Word Count: 1853
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... a third degree burns. He won't admit to a crime he did not commit. The comparison of shame to a painful burn is most apparent in the last stanza, "When you throw Cold water on me, I'll sign the Paper..."" Only if the white jury can end the burning shame he feels, will he admit to the crime he did not commit. Corrupt trials ... critics throughout his career dismissed his poetry as too "simple and unlearned,"" his primary audience, the black masses, and even Hughes himself viewed his work as "folk poetry- which was beneath criticism (Rampersad 4-5). His poems, when studied as a collection...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School