Snake is a poem that has a unique way of dealing with the moral consciousness of society'. explain the statement citing examples from the poem.
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Simply put,a man is confronted by a snake that he finds beautiful,but he has always been tasught that the snake is ugly.Throughout the poem Lawrence explains that the snake's every movement as he watches with fascination.He gives a detailed description of how the snake came to his water trough & drank.Although he enjoys the snake,he is confronted with what to do with it.The narrator has been taught that this particular snake is poisonous & should killed,while other snakes are okayThis has a direct correlation to today's society & how we place limits on what is acceptable & what should be condemned.The poem also shows how due to these societal norms we question ourselves.
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The poem snakes revolves around the encounter the man had with a snake.
The voice of my education said to me
He must be killed.
And voices in me said if you were a man
You would take a stick and break him now, and finish him off
The above lines tell us how we are educated all our life to kill the snake even if it's harmful or not the narrator did not feel very scared by the snake but the voices in his head were telling him to be scared and kill the snake. But the narrator was actually feeling honored that the snake came and visited him and when the snake wanted to leave he wanted to stop him and when he doesn't stop he regrets and hate himself for doing so.
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