Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:
He drank enough
And lifted his head, dreamily, as one who has drunken,
And flickered his tongue like a forked night on the air, so black,
Seeming to lick his lips,
And looked around like a god, unseeing, into the air,
And slowly turned his head,
And slowly, very slowly, as if thrice a dream,
Proceeded to draw his slow length curving round
And climb again the broken bank of my wall-face.
Paraphrase. The snake drank to his satisfaction. He lifted his head dreamily as if he were drunk. He moved his tongue like a forked lightning at a dark night in the air. He seemed to be licking his lips. He looked around unseeing like a god into the air. Then he turned his head very slowly as if he were dreaming. He moved to shrink his length slowly. Curving round he climbed again on the broken corner of the poet’s front wall.
Questions
(a) How did the snake look when he lifted his head?
(b) What is the poetic device used in the line ‘And looked around like a god’?
(c) What is the word for ‘moved/ jerked’ in the passage?
