Question

(b) The squirrel is sprier than the mountain. Supporting statement: ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poem 'Fable' is a moral poem. This poem teaches a lesson. In this poem, Ralph Waldo Emerson deals with a supposed quarrel between a mountain and a squirrel. The arguments of the mountain and the squirrel are very interesting.

The mountain mocks at the squirrel by calling it a ‘little prig’. The squirrel in reply does not hesitate to point out that the mountain may be very large, but all sorts of things are important in Nature. As the squirrel is very small living being, it does not feel disgrace to occupy its place for existence because the squirrel thinks, each and everything in this world has a unique place and each has a different task to perform. As a squirrel can’t carry a forest on its back, a mountain can’t crack a nut as a squirrel.

Thus every small thing living or non-living has an important role to perform to justify its existence in this world of Nature. The poet tries to express this message in this poem ‘Fable’, i,e., moral lesson through a tiny creature like a squirrel.

Answer 2

Answer:

If squirrel not so large as mountain you are not so small as