Poem Analysis – The Thin Red Snake
Death does not wait; it is sudden, abrupt, and unexpected. One may imagine that life will go on forever, but the painful and inevitable truth is that it simply does not, and that someday, somehow, somewhere, anyone will die. This is the message in Yash Arora’s “The Thin Red Snake”. The free-verse poem begins by outlining the journey of a thin red snake, as it climbs and descends through a terrain. Immediately after this, there are three consecutive beeps, which must have some significance to the poem. In fact, these beeps are present at the end of every verse, meaning that they are continuous. This is because of the indirect implication that the beeps would continue, unless explicitly stated otherwise. In
Death does not wait; it is sudden, abrupt, and unexpected. One may imagine that life will go on forever, but the painful and inevitable truth is that it simply does not, and that someday, somehow, somewhere, anyone will die. This is the message in Yash Arora’s “The Thin Red Snake”. The free-verse poem begins by outlining the journey of a thin red snake, as it climbs and descends through a terrain. Immediately after this, there are three consecutive beeps, which must have some significance to the poem. In fact, these beeps are present at the end of every verse, meaning that they are continuous. This is because of the indirect implication that the beeps would continue, unless explicitly stated otherwise. In