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theme of the poem snake?????

v  A snake visited the poet 's water trough on a hot afternoon to quench his thirst. The poet who had also gone to the trough to fill water in a pitcher waited for the snake since he had come at the trough prior to the poet.

v  (g) The snake rested his throat upon the stone bottom and sipped the water into his slack long body. After drinking water, he raised his head just like cattle do and flashed his forked tongue, thought for a moment and then bent down to drink some more water.

v  After drinking water to satisfaction, the snake raised his head dreamily and flickered his forked tongue and licked his lips. The snake looked around like a God and then slowly proceeded to curve round and move away from the water trough.

v  (h) Education and social conventions make the poet think that the golden brown poisonous snake must be killed and that as a brave man he must undertake the task of killing the snake.

v  (e) The voices of education inside the poet tell him that it was the fear for the snake that made him refrain from killing him. However, the poet feels that though he was quite afraid of the snake, he did actually feel honoured that a snake had come to seek his hospitality from the deep recesses of the earth.

v  (j) However, the poet instinctively likes the snake, treats him like a guest and feels honoured that it had come to drink at his water trough. The poet questions himself and wonders whether his not daring to kill the snake proved that he was a coward and whether his desire to talk to the snake reflected his perversity.

v  As the snake put his head into the hole to retreat into the earth, the poet was filled with a protest against the idea of the snake withdrawing into his hole. The poet put down his pitcher, picked up a log and hurled it at the snake. The snake twisted violently and with great alacrity vanished into the hole in the wall.

v  (f) He is guilt-ridden and feels that he has to atone for the meanness of his action of throwing a log at the snake.

v  The poet instantly felt sorry for his unrefined and contemptible act and cursed the voices of education and civilization that had shaped his thought processes and urged him to kill the snake.

v  The poet felt much like the ancient mariner who had killed the albatross for no reason. He wishes that the snake would come back. He thinks of the snake as a king in exile who has to be crowned again. He also regrets having missed his opportunity of knowing and understanding one of the lords of life.

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  “Snake” is one of Lawrence’s most famous poems. Although the poem seems to be about an encounter with a snake, the true theme of the poem is the conflict between emotional behavior and learned behavior. This conflict is displayed through setting and symbolism.

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Social convention VS. Inner consience.

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The basically theme of the snake poem is the to make human bieng learn about themself ...anout social convection and the learned convection basically the poem deals with this concept ,,,,the poem was penning up with mix feeling
 
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IT IS THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN HUMAN INSTINCT AND RATIONAL THOUGHT(CALLED VOICE OF EDUCATION)
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the true conflict between setting and symbolism
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The true theme of the poem is the conflict between EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR AND EDUCATION MIND (The voice of education).
 
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???Snake? is one of Lawrence?s most famous poems. Although the poem seems to be about an encounter with a snake, the true theme of the poem is the conflict?between emotional behavior and learned behavior. This conflict is displayed through setting and symbolism.
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The poet comes across a snake drinking at his water-trough. Like a second-comer, he waits for it to finish drinking. While watching it, he realizes that it is a gentle and magnificent creature. Even though he has learned to fear and kill snakes, he does not do so. When the snake is preparing to leave, he becomes sad and tries to stop it by hitting it with a log. But this only makes the snake leave faster. In the end, the poet feels he has treated the snake very badly, and is filled with regret
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                     Here's the answer to this query,
                            
                                  * The poet wanted to convey this message that most animals have a harmless attitude and human beings must have patience while dealing with them.
                                  * He regrets his decision of being inhospitable (impatient) towards the snake.
                                  * The value that can be derived from this is that  man and animal must coexist with unity.

                    Hope this helps.
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Snake by D.H Lawrence seems to have been written on the theme of the need of man's mutual and poet co-existence with other creatures in the world and the right to save existence that these creatures naturally are god's creation.
Parallel to this theme reins the theme of guilt and sin. That man, the crowning glory of God's creation,has or should have for failing to carry out his duty to respect and the right of the other creatures of God exist peacefully on the earth.It is sad that he is a threat to them more than they are to him
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The poet wanted to convey this message that most of the animals have a harmless attitude and human beings must have patience while dealing with them. He regrets his decision of being in hospitable towards the snake.

​The value that can derived from this is that man and animal must coexist with unity.

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The theme of poem snake is that we should consider animals equal to humans and should not harm them unless they harm us. The poem focuses on the idea of coexistence of animals and humans .
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In the poem "Snake," Lawrence utilizes a theme of nature and contrasts the world of nature and creatures such as the snake with the human world of man. He contrasts the basic nature of the snake to simply "be," acting only with instincts to the actions of man that are so conflicted by conscious thought and emotion. hope this answer is useful.
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Human instinct and education teaches a human being the threat possesed by anything. This abysmall nature of human beings is portrayed by D.H Lawrence in a multitudinous and versetile impetous of his own fore gone past
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No one should be considered inferior whether it is human being or any other organism. Everyone should be treated equal because we all are the children of God.
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Snak-: it is the nature poem. There is conflict between the two ideas first the values we inharit from our parents and the secound aducation we recived from school.Poet thoughts that people should not kill the animals because they can control over them. Poet wanted a good relationship betwewn animals and human beings.
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There are two main themes in the poem: the relationship of people to nature and the narrator's own sense of identity.  

The narrator offers us two possible ways we can relate to the natural world. The first way is to admire the beauty and grace of the snake. Even though the snake has the potential to be dangerous, we are actually in no danger from it if we simply stand by and observe while it drinks, appreciating its grace and wildness. The second way to relate to nature is through fear and anger, destroying even the possibility of any form of competition or danger to humanity. 

The narrator initially takes the first stance:

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.

Temporarily, his "accursed human education" and sense of his masculine identity get the better of him, and he hurls a log at the snake. He immediately feels remorse and realizes that the act was petty and in fact morally wrong. 

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The main theme of the poem Snake is about the peaceful coexistence between all life forms.The poem arouses the feeling of love and sympathy for all creatures of the world.We can also see the conflict between our emotional opinion and our voice of education.It talks about the instability of man's mind wherein he finds two opinions in which he has to choose one.But our instinctive behaivour prompts us to do good.In the poem the poet expresses natural human values like etiquette, kindness as well as changing mind of man.
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