Last seen: Sep 30, 2021
Kite-A Calligram poem A Kite is soaring high in sky A dive and a dip It soars like a ship Beautiful and high Tying earth and sky.
Repetition • And must wait, must stand and wait • to feel so honoured I felt so honoured • And slowly and slowly very slowly • I was afraid ...
(a) Sound: He sipped with his straight mouth, Softly drank through his straight gums, into his slack long body, silently-Alliteration (sibilance) ...
I have a reaction of fear and fascination for the snake. There is a conflict between my natural feelings and my rational thinking. I have feelings of ...
Although the poet hits the snake under the influence of his education he feels sorry and wishes the snake would come back so the poet could crown it l...
The poet places the blame on the voice of education for his action to have tempted him into hitting the snake and hopes he need not pay for his negati...
After hitting the snake the poet has feelings of self-derision, guilt and regret. He blames the voice of education that lures him to hit the snake. He...
When the snake comes to the water-trough he ‘trails his yellow-brown soft-belly’ smoothly down silently. And when he has drunk the water he looked aro...
The poet is full of admiration and respect for the snake. He respects it like a guest who has come to his water-trough to drink water. He ‘stands and ...
The snake moved slowly into the hole and suddenly the poet ‘picked up a log and threw it at the water-trough to kill the snake’. The snake hearing the...
On seeing the snake the poet has conflicting emotions. There is something that actually wants him to like the snake but at the same time his education...
The snakes thirst was satiated for, after drinking silendy he lifted his head ‘as catde do’ satisfied and flickered his forked tongue from his lips ‘a...
The snake was not conscious of the poet’s presence for it came very peacefully trailing his yellow-brown belly down over the edge of the stone water t...
The poet wants to convey that the snake came out of the dark hell. He means that the snake comes out of the fissure from the bottom of the earth which...
It was a hot day. The poet came out in pyjamas because of the heat, to fill his pitcher. It seemed to be a day of ‘Sicilian July, with Etna smoking. T...
The snake that came to the water-trough down from a fissure in the earth wall was yellow- brown slack, soft-bellied. He sipped with his straight mouth...
The poet decides to stand and wait till the snake has finished drinking because he thinks that the snake came before him. The poet stands waiting with...
(iii) the act of throwing a log of wood at the snake
(iv) is a majestic creature forced to go into exile by man
(iii) moving slowly