Question

Send the summary of the poem The Comet by Norman Littleford

Answer 1

Rampaging through the heavens
never stopping day or night,
a spectacle of a lifetime
a comet in full flight.

Faster than a cheetah
with a tail that's miles long,
bigger than a mountain
so powerful and strong.

The outer ice is melting
causing vapour from the force,
and leaves a trail behind it
as it travels on it's course.

If one should come too close to earth
the atmophere will shake,
with shockwaves reaching to the ground
causing the land to quake.

Scientists say the chemicals
in the dust they leave behind,
could have started life on earth
which resulted in mankind.

I cannot say if this is true
I do not have the right,
but I know no better spectacle
than a comet in full flight.



The poem itself is the summary of the original one.

Answer 2

The poet describes the story of the comet how it travels all day and all night and still it is with the full energy.

The poet is comparing the speed of the comet with the cheetah but the poet is also describing the size of the comet that it is very huge just like a mountain. And it is so huge that if it comes near to the earth, it will leave the earth destroyed or some part of the earth will be destroyed.

So the poem is just directed towards the characteristics of the comet and the nature of it.