Setting of the Poem Snake
This poem is set in the poet’s backyard, where there is a water-trough. When the poet goes to the trough to fill a pitcher with water for his own use, he encounters a snake which has come to the trough before him. The entire poem revolves around this very encounter.Summary of Snake by D.H.Lawrence
The poem consists of 19 stanzas of variable lengths. The entire poem consists of 75 lines in total.1st stanza: