"in the Snake Park" has an uncomfortably hot atmosphere, with phrases such as "white-hot midday", "singing glare", "the sun throbbed like a fever" and "burning glass" that make the reader feel restless and uncomfortable. This discomfort could also be caused by the way the snakes move; slow and lazy, as if sleepy, but with a sense of underlying danger. Here the rhythm and level of energy of the poem mirrors the movement of the snakes. Contrast this with the cool calm atmosphere of the first poem; "green waters", "tree", "leaf", "Eden"; and the hypnotic movement of the snakes "sways and coiling". The first poem is a much nicer place to be than the second, from the atmosphere; the first being "Eden" and the second a "white-hot"
"in the Snake Park" has an uncomfortably hot atmosphere, with phrases such as "white-hot midday", "singing glare", "the sun throbbed like a fever" and "burning glass" that make the reader feel restless and uncomfortable. This discomfort could also be caused by the way the snakes move; slow and lazy, as if sleepy, but with a sense of underlying danger. Here the rhythm and level of energy of the poem mirrors the movement of the snakes. Contrast this with the cool calm atmosphere of the first poem; "green waters", "tree", "leaf", "Eden"; and the hypnotic movement of the snakes "sways and coiling". The first poem is a much nicer place to be than the second, from the atmosphere; the first being "Eden" and the second a "white-hot"