Part one of term paper
In D.H. Lawrence's poem entitled "Snake," he examines the differences between feelings and education. He expresses this theme in three ways. The speaker knows that he should kill the snake, he questions his own manliness, and tries to hit it with a log. The speaker in this poem learns that if you listen to your feelings then you will be a ...

Part two of term paper
... poem when it says, "The voice of my education said to me He must be killed." This line from the poem says that the speaker knows that he should kill the snake because his education told him that he should, but his feelings for the snake told him that if he killed the snake that would be wrong. The second time that he expresses this theme is when the speaker questions his own manliness. This is stated in the poem when it says, "Was it cowardice, that I dared not kill it?" This line from the po ...