write a short note on leslie norris class 10 english tiger in the zoo
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The poem begins with a description of a tiger that is very beautiful and is walking in his little cage. He has beautiful stripes on his skin and has velvet like soft paws. But the tiger is not happy and is quite angry about being confined in the cage. The poet says that if the tiger was not confined to the zoo cage, he would have been hiding himself behind the long grass near some water body, in order to catch its prey that is the deer. Also, he would have terrorised the residents of the villages around the forest area. But the reality is totally opposite to this. He was confined in a cage which was made up of strong building material and he was helpless there. He could not show his power to the visitors, therefore, never tried to terrorize them. The tiger is described as being powerless and agonized by the poet. He says that during night also he is alone, hearing the voice of the patrolling vehicles of police and looking at the stars. The cage life has totally changed the tiger’s personality. The poet is trying to say that the animal which is famous for its fearlessness and freedom is confined and sad due to the human beings who want to derive pleasure by looking at him in the zoo cage.
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'A Tiger in the Zoo' is a poem written by Leslie Norris, where it states that how different are the emotions of a tiger when it is in wildlife and when it is in a zoo.
In Wildlife, a tiger can roam around freely, as it wishes. It can go at the boundaries of the villages and scare the people living there. It can hunt for the plump deer that drinks water near a waterhole. It states that a tiger is really very proud and happy when it is wildlife, nobody to disturb it.
But, in a zoo, it is kept in a cage, and people from different places come to see the tiger, just like an object. It hates, that like an object, it is seen by the people. In a cage, it can walk just a few steps, and stalks the bars of the cage.It cannot go here and there, cannot hunt for itself. It The tiger feels slave in the concrete cell and feels itself as a prisoner. It cannot lurk in the shadow and misses its own freedom.