Snake

In the poem “Snake,” by D.H Lawrence, there is a man that travels to a water-thought to get a drink and on his arrival he sees a snake already there getting a drink of water.This man waits patiently while the snake finishes drinking. He waits and waits and begins to think of why he is waiting when he could be taking a stick and break him now, and finish him off. If I was in his position I would of killed the snake, so why doesn’t he kill the snake? When some people think of a snake, they think evil, or gross or dangerous and that it needs to be killed. I said it’s for some people but that is what the person meant in the poem when he said he must be killed. This snakes color was yellow-brown and if you look that up it means they are poisonous, so I kind of believe that he feels like he should kill it. He could also think that killing it could save others. If he even may feel like that everything is telling him to kill it, he still doesn’t.

For someone to stand there and not do anything, I wonder if he wants socialize with the snake. I notice that he never calls the snake “snake”, but him or king. So the question is why did the man see himself in the snake? The man seemed as if he was a lonely guy, but the snake was as well. The difference between them was that the snake could go anywhere, do whatever it wanted, and since he was one of the few of the snakes that were poisonous made him more noticeable and respectable. When we think of a snake even though most of us are afraid of them makes us show respect for them also. There are other types of people that would hurt or kill that snake, because they know they can and that there is no comparison between them and the snake. I see him more and more as the snake as each passage passes and that the man goes through each day and hope that he doesn’t get bothered, injured, or hurt. There is one part he will not compare but only wish of and that is that the snake is due to be crowned and that he wishes he could be as powerful and noticed as the snake is. No matter how low you or anyone gets everyone always knows that they will concur or be on top of something one day.