And immediately I regretted it.
I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!
I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.
(a) What does the poet regret?
(b) Why does the poet curse his human education?
(c) What is meant by the word, ‘despised’?
(a) The poet regrets hitting the snake with a log.
(b) The poet here curses human education in general because it has made him internalise an emotion of fear and threat when he sees a snake. Human education has shaped his mental process in such a way that urged him to kill the snake.
(c) The word ‘despised’ means to detest, hate or dislike.
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