THE SNAKE AND A "HUMAN"

This is a very ironic poem!!!!!!.It particularly displays the typical "human" qualities.

It shows how initially poet thinks the snake(albatross) as its guest and thinks to offer him his hospitality. He was fascinated by it. But still his inner "humanly" voice encouraged him to kill that golden snake as these types of snakes were venomous. Though the snake did no harm to anyone and silently quenched his longing thirst , still he thought to hit him just as an act of self-defence. But at the other hand he was a little afraid to kill him as it might attack him.

Though in the end he attacks him. But it might be because he wanted the snake to not to go into the darkness (the hole). But there is irony at the end of the poem when the poet compares the snake to a king and a god and it might be b'cos he is deeply regretful for his "mistake" .But it also shows that the poet was a good , calm and a peace-loving person (particularly for animals) .

So there is a similarity between the "night of the scorpion" and the "snake" as both of them show the mean acts of humans. Just the difference between these two are that in the former the reptile causes a damage to the poet's mother for it's own self-defense , whereas in the latter one the reptile doesn't cause any damage but still is caused harm. Though both the reptiles are protective and attack for defense .

But I personally feel that these are two are really good poems which poigantly define the typical "human" qualities very well.