“The voice of my education said to me He must be killed, For in Sicily, the black, black snakes are

Question

Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow:

“The voice of my education said to me

He must be killed,

For in Sicily, the black, black snakes are innocent, the gold are venomous. And voices in me said. If you were a man”

(a) Who speaks the above lines ?

(b) Who is ‘He’ in the above lines ?

(c) Why must ‘He’ be killed ?

(d) What does the word ‘Venomous’ mean ?

Answer 1

(a) The poet speaks these lines.

(b) ‘He’ in the above lines is the snake.

(c) ‘He’ must be killed as he is poisonous.

(d) Poisonous.