Snake English Chapter Solutions NCERT Class 10th Note
1. a) He lifted his head from his drinking as cattle do ?The poet want to convey that the snake
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Is as harmless as cattle .
b) ‘sicilian July’,’Etna smoking’ and ‘burning bowels of the earth’ are images that covey that
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It was a really hot day when the snake come. .
c) 'A sort of horror, a sort of protest overcame me' - The poet is filled with protest because
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he doesn't want the snake to recede into darkness.
d) In the line 'And as he slowly drew up, snake-easing his shoulders, and entered farther' the phrase snake easing' his shoulders means
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slipping in with majestic grace .
e) 'He seemed to me like a king in exile;' The poet refers to the snake as such to emphasize that the snake
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is a majestic creature forced to go into exile by man.
f) 'I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act' -The poet is referring to
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the act of throwing a log of wood at the snake
