Question

Which lines reveal the poet’s attitude toward the snake?
A. You may have met him,—did you not,
His notice sudden is.
B. He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
C. When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.
D. Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

Answer 1

A narrow fellow in the grass
Occasionally rides;
You may have met him,—did you not,
His notice sudden is.

The grass divides as with a comb,
A spotted shaft is seen;
And then it closes at your feet
And opens further on.

He likes a boggy acre,
A floor too cool for corn.
Yet when a child, and barefoot,
I more than once, at morn,

Have passed, I thought, a whip-lash
Unbraiding in the sun,—
When, stooping to secure it,
It wrinkled, and was gone.

Several of nature's people
I know, and they know me;
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality;

But never met this fellow,
Attended or alone,
Without a tighter breathing,
And zero at the bone.

Answer 2

@shifuyanli

Answer 3

what do you think @cole1117

Answer 4

b

Answer 5

I would think so, yes.