Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
And yet those voices:
If you were not afraid, you would kill him!
And truly I was afraid, I was most afraid, But even so, honoured still more
That he should seek my hospitality
From out the dark door of the secret earth.
Paraphrase. The voices inside the poet told him that if he were not afraid, he would kill him. And truly he was afraid, he was very much afraid of the snake. But even so he felt himself honoured. The snake who came out of the dark door of the secret earth, sought his hospitality. The poet was proud of it.
Questions
(a) What were these voices?
(b) What is the main poetic device used in the stanza?
(c) What is the word for ‘search’ in the passage?
