Question

Notice how D H Lawrence uses both these devices effectively in the following stanza.He reached down from a fissure in the earth-wall in the gloom It trails it's yellow Brown and soft bellied thin long body up to the edge of the stone trough And rested his throat upon the stone bottom,And where the water had dripped from the tap, in a small clearness,He sipped with his straight mouth,Softly drank through his straight gums, into his long body, Silently.
To what effect has the poet used these devices? How has it added to your understanding of the subject of the poem? You may record your understanding of snake characteristics under the following headings: (a) Sound (b) Movement (c) Shape.

Answer 1

ANSWER :

(a)SOUND : 1. ‘He sipped with his straight mouth,

2.Softly drank through his straight gums, into his long body, Silently.

(b) MOVEMENT : 1. And trailed his yellow-brown loose soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone trough.

2.And  flickered his  two-forked tongue  from his lips…

3.’And flickered his tongue like  a forked night on the air, so black’

4.’Seeming to pick his lips’

5. ‘And climb again the broken bank of my wall face’.

6.’And as he put his head into that dreadful hole….’

(c)SHAPE : 1. ‘...... Into his long body silently….’

2. ‘Being Earth- brown, Earth -Golden from the burning bowels of the earth..’

3.’For in Sicily the black , black snakes are innocent,the gold are venomous…

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