Question

V.Read the following extracts carefully and answer the questions that follow:

The Snake trying

to escape the pursuing stick,

with sudden curving of thin

long body. How beautiful

and graceful are his shapes!

Q. (a) What is the snake trying to escape from?

(b) How does the thin body appear to move as it tries to escape the stick?

(c) What is implied by " How beautiful and graceful are his shapes!"?

(d) What do you mean by ' to escape the pursuing stick'?​

Answer 1

Answers:
a) The snake is trying to get away from pursuing stick (the man who is chasing him with a stick.)

b) With his thin long body, he runs making sudden carvings.

c) The poet thinks that his curves are beautiful and impressive. The poet uses the following words: beautiful and graceful, glides, small and green.

d) To save itself from the blow of stick, he prefers to go through water.