JAMB - Literature In English (2025 - No. 9)
He lifted his head from his drinking
as cattles do,
And looked at me vaguely, as
drinking cattles do,
And flickered his two-forked tongue
from his lips, and mused
a moment (D.H. Lawrence)
The poetic object in the extract above is
an elephant
a bird
a man
a snake
Explanation
The text mentions the object "flickered his two-forked tongue from his lips". A two-forked tongue is a biological characteristic of a snake.
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