Question

The poet is filled with the horror and protest when the snake prepares to repeat and Hari itself in the horrid black and Deadful hole. in the light of this statement bring out the irony of his act on throwing a log at the snake

Answer 1

Instinctively, the poet likes the snake and treats you like a guest and feels Arnold that he has come to drink water at his water trough. So he protests when the snake prepares to withdraw into his hole.
But rationally, he thinks that he should kill the snake. So he throws a log at the snake to kill him. The poet instantly regrets his mean action. The irony lies in the fact that he likes the snake and treat me like a guest and yet tries to kill him.