Name : Danissa Fitriamalia Gito

Student Number : 2001055014

Literature 6D – Assignment 3

Anger
By : Charles Lamb

Anger in its time and place

May assume a kind of grace.
It must have some reason in it,
And not last beyond a minute.
If to further lengths it go,
It does into malice grow.
‘Tis the difference that we see
’Twixt the serpent and the bee.
If the latter you provoke,
It inflicts a hasty stroke,
Puts you to some little pain,
But it never stings again.
Close in tufted bush or brake
Lurks the poison—swellëd snake
Nursing up his cherished wrath;
In the purlieux of his path,
In the cold, or in the warm,
Mean him good, or mean him harm,
Whensoever fate may bring you,
The vile snake will always sting you.
 Source : (https://www.poeticous.com/charles-lamb/anger)

This Poetry describing :

It deals with anger, which is an acceptable feeling if it is justified and quickly acknowledged.
The anger which last beyond a minute,grows in us like a poison and doesn’t let us mend
relationship, even after all the good deeds done. It is symbolized by the sting of a bee. The
bee would sting and go away but snake’s poison will keep growing in us, but if it is bottled
up for a long time it grows and becomes really harmful, like a snake whose bitter vision of
life will lead it to bite many times until it reaches its extreme end , and destroy everything in
its path.