Question

"Cleverness and dominance and predominance". Comment in the light of the poem - The frog and the nightingale....

Answer 1

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=> All the above qualities are displayed by the Frog from the satire "The Frog and the Nightingale".

=> The frog during his first meeting with the innocent nightingale cleverly flattered her by falsely appreciating himself. The nightingale being innocent and gullible easily got lured by the frog and called him the "Mozart of Music" and begged to teach her. Thus the frog displays cleverness here.

=> From the very beginning of the poem, the frog was dominant in his actions. All the creatures of the bog tried every possible method to stop the frog from singing on the bog. Thus the frog displays dominance.

=> The frog from the beginning dominated. The nightingale has to follow what the frog ordered or demanded, be it the nightingale's life or talent. The frog indirectly destroyed the nightingale's life and talent.

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