Accursed Human Education
D. H. Lawrence in his poem ‘Snake’ has used the term ‘Accursed Human Education’. A man comes to his water trough and finds a snake drinking water instinctively; he feels that he should wait a second till the snake finishes his drinking. This feeling prevents him from disturbing the snake. But further his civilized thought is spoiled by his knowledge about snakes, his knowledge prompts him to kill the snake as he knows the snake was poisonous, his ego wants that by killing the