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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in about 100-120 words:
Examine the difference between the tiger in “A Tiger in the Zoo” and the dragon in “The Tale of Custard the Dragon”.
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उत्तर
The tiger in Leslie Norris’s “A Tiger in the Zoo” is a powerful, restless creature trapped and frustrated, pacing a “few steps of his cage,” full of “quiet rage,” remembering the wild he’s denied; the poem treats confinement as tragic and constraining.
By contrast Ogden Nash’s Custard is a comic, self‑professed coward: physically fearsome in description yet timid, craving a “nice safe cage” and mocked by friends, until a crisis reveals surprising courage. The tone is playful and ironic rather than elegiac, so Custard’s weakness becomes part of a humorous reversal when he defends Belinda.
