Question

5 Extracts on the poem “the mouse and the snake” by VIKRAM SETH

Answer 1

Answer:

The mouse and the snake

Poem

Step-by-step explanation:

A few extracts from the poem are as under

1)Lived to eat and tell--not one.

But the two friends, unpoliced,

Broke in and began to feast;

And their laughter fell and rose,

Till their blood with horror froze.

2)Gold and shiny, vicious, long,

Venom-fanged, hypnotic, strong--

Slid a snake towards the pair,

Swallowed one right then and there,

3)Hissed obscenely at the other:

"That's the first; and here's another!"

And, when she stood shocked and still,

Sprang at once to make his kill.

4)Glared at him, and twitched her nose.

Every time he slid or sprang,

Dripping venom from each fang,

Out beyond his reach she leapt,

Till the snake, grown tired, crept

To his hole, slid first his head,

Then his gleaming, overfed

Trunk in, so that just his tail

Jutted out to thrash and flail.

5)Swift as rage the little mouse

Rushed towards the killer's house,

Bit his tail once, twice, again,

Clung to it till, wild with pain,

Hissing wrath, the snake backed out,