(i) What does the line, “Little one! Oh, little one!” suggest you?

Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :

“And I can not find the place

Where his paw is in the share;

Little one! Oh, little one!

I am searching everywhere.”

(i) What does the line, “Little one! Oh, little one!” suggest you?

(ii)“And I can not find the place. “ Which place is the poet unable to find?

Answer 1

(i) The poet seems to feel such a pain for the rabbit in “The Snare’ as if a little child were being tortured. Thus, he calls him ‘little one’. He wants to find out his (rabbit’*) location.

(ii)The poet is talking about the place where the paws of the rabbit must be in the snare. He is searching for him because he wants to help him.