Question

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:

Understanding of snake characteristics under the following headings:

(a) SOUND

1. ‘He sipped with his straight mouth,

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

(b) MOVEMENT

1. Trailed his yellow-brown loose soft-bellied down, over the edge of the stone trough.

2. Flickered his tongue like  a forked night on the air, so black’

4. Seeming to pick his lips.

5. Climb again the broken bank of my wall face.

6. 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.