Unit 6- The Snake (KKHSOU BA-PASS 1ST SEM 2023)
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Unit 6- The Snake
Discuss the life and works of the poet D.H.Lawrence.
Ans: LDereck Herbert Richards Lawrence was born to Arthur John Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall in 1885. He belonged to a humble working-class family. He was brought up in the mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire where his father had served as a coal miner. The lives of the coal miners are very difficult and challenging. Thus the Lawrence family had to work hard in order to meet their needs. As a young boy, Lawrence had seen much trouble in the early part of his life, fragments of which are captured in the best of his literary works. He received his early education at the Beauvale Board School and the Nottingham High School on scholarship. Some of the best works of fiction by Lawrence are “The White Peacock” (1911), “The Trespasser” (1912), “Sons and Lovers(1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love” (1920), The Lost Girl (1920), “Aaron’s Rod” (1922), “Kangaroo” (1923), “The Boy in the Bush'”(1924), “The Plumed Serpent” (1926), “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” (1928) and “The Escaped Cock” (1929).
2. Write a few words on about the birthplace and early years of D.H. Lawrence.
Ans: Dereck Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-1930) was born to Arthur John Lawrence and Lydia Beardsall in a humble working-class family. He was brought up in the mining town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire where his father had served as a coal miner.
3. Name some of the best works of fiction by D.H.
Lawrence.
Ans: Some of the best works of fiction by Lawrence are The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, The Lost Girl, Aaron’s Rod, Kangaroo, The Boy in the Bush, The Plumed Serpent, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and The Escaped Cock. The anthologies of poetry are titled Love Poems and Others, Amores, Look! We Have Come Through!, New Poems, Bay: A Book of Poems, Tortoises, Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Pansies and Nettles.
4. Name a few of the widely read short stories by D.H.
Lawrence.
Ans: A few of the widely read short stories of Lawrence are: “The Captain’s Doll”, “The Fox”, “The Ladybird” and Odour of Chrysanthemums” to name a few.
5. Why is the narrator taken by surprise?
Ans: The narrator is taken by surprise at the unexpected sight and stands at a safe distance waiting and watching the snake under the shade of a “strange-scented” carob tree.
6. What is the present context of the poem?
Ans: The present context of the poem is in a place known as Sicily, in Italy.
7. Briefly describe the conflict of both fear yet fascination in the mind of the narrator.
Ans: The voices in his head did not allow him to be at peace which is why he had to assure himself that it was not his sense of fear that had stopped him from taking an action. Yet, another reiterated description of the snake, showS how the mind of the narrator was absolutely captivated by the image of he snake.
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