A Poison Tree

What metaphors are used in A Poison Tree by William Blake?

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In “A Poison Tree,” Blake represents anger as a plant and compares the angry person's relationship to his anger to a gardener's relationship to the plants he tends. Comparison is implicit in metaphor. Blake is saying anger is like a plant. A person who cultivates his anger is like a gardener.