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प्रश्न
Answer the following question:
In the poem "Snake", why does the poet say "I have something to expatiate."?
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उत्तर
The poet says so because he tried to kill the snake though it did not caused any harm to him he was feeling guilty for this act and knew that he would have to amend things to be forgiven for this sin.
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What were the poet's thoughts after the snake had gone?
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that
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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?
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You have already read Coleridge's poem The Ancient Mariner in which an albatross is killed by the mariner. Why does the poet make an allusion to the albatross?
Read the given excerpt and answer the questions briefly.
| But must I confess how I liked him, How glad I was he had come like a guest in quiet, to drink at my water-trough And depart peaceful, pacified, and thankless, Into the burning bowels of this earth? |
- What can be inferred about the speaker's attitude towards nature based on the excerpt? (1)
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- How is the snake's arrival and departure symbolic? (1)
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