The snake in this poem is not the snake of the ECOLOGY of earth; it is a symbolic of our fears - of the unknown, of the malign which seeks to destroy us out of malice. The flowers are victims because they don't realize the venom
of those who hate for hates's sake. These symbolic snakes represent what is alien to an ecological process and most certainly alien to a moral view of life.
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The snake in this poem is not the snake of the ECOLOGY of earth; it is a symbolic of our fears - of the unknown, of the malign which seeks to destroy us out of malice. The flowers are victims because they don't realize the venom of those who hate for hates's sake. These symbolic snakes represent what is alien to an ecological process and most certainly alien to a moral view of life.