My Pretty Rose Tree

My Pretty Rose Tree - context Summary

From Songs of Experience

Placed in Blake’s Songs of Experience, the short lyric shows a speaker who rejects an offered flower because he already has a "pretty rose tree." His pride or possessiveness prompts care for his rose, but it responds with jealousy and only thorns remain. The poem registers how ownership, insecurity, and moral failure produce loss rather than consolation, fitting the collection’s darker view of human relationships and experience.