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प्रश्न
What were the conflicting thoughts in the poet's mind on seeing the snake?
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उत्तर
The poet’s mind was fraught between the thought of killing the snake and at the same time, letting it have its fill of water as he would allow any other person to do.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Why did the poet have to wait near the water trough ? (Snake)
Why did the poet try to harm the snake ?
Read what W.W.E. Ross feels when he sees a snake and fill in the table given
below:
The snake trying to escape the
pursuing stick, with sudden curvings
of thin long body. How beautiful and
graceful are his shapes !
He glides through the water away
from the stroke. O let him go over the
water into the reeds to hide without
hurt. Small and green he is harmless
even to children Along the sand
he lay until observed
and chased away, and now
he vanishes in the ripples
among the green slim reeds.
| What is the snake doing? | Words to describe the snake | The Poet's plea |
Based on your reading of the poem, answer the following question by ticking the correct option:
- In the line 'And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther'
the phrase snake easing' his shoulders means
Answer the following question briefly:
In stanza 2 and 3, the poet gives a vivid description of the snake by using suggestive expressions. What picture of the snake do you form on the basis of this description?
Answer the following question briefly:
Do you think the snake was conscious of the poet's presence? How do you know?
How do we know that the snake’s thirst had been satiated? Pick out the expressions that convey this.
Answer the following question briefly:
What is the difference between the snake's movement at the beginning of the poem and later when the poet strikes it with a log of wood? You may use relevant vocabulary from the poem to highlight the difference.
Answer the following question briefly :
'I have something to expiate'-Explain.
Answer the following question:
In the poem "Snake", why does the poet say "I have something to expatiate."?
