Question

Why did d.h lawrence relates to the albatross in his poem 'snake'? how is the snake personified in this poem/

Answer 1

because the act of killing the albatross unjustly without any reason by ancient mariner was exactly similar to the poet throwing a log of wood on the snake without any reason.

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Yes, as you know in personification the poets give human qualities or feelings to abstract ideas and inanimate objects. Likewise, Lawrence has personified soft yellow-brown colored snake throughout this poem such as sometimes snake drinks water from trough, licking lips like humans and turning its head and sometimes poet it as a king, who is the powerful and lord of life.