JAMB - Literature In English (1994 - No. 19)
"I came down the step with my pitcher
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he
was at the trough before me."
These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the
And must wait, must stand and wait, for there he
was at the trough before me."
These lines from "Snakes" suggests that the
snake was regal and that the persona must wait as a subject
snake was venomous and therefore the poet has to be very wary
snake got there first, in the interest of justice, the poet should wait
poet is terrified of the snake
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