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HOW TO TELL WILD ANIMALS
SUMMARY
The poet is describing the various wild animals. These animals are very
dangerous and she has introduced them one by one in a very funny way. First
of all she tells us about an Asian lion. She says that if you are visiting the
jungles of the East and there you see an animal which has tawny skin and he
roars so loudly that you will die out of fear. This means that you have seen an
Asian lion. Next in the line is the Bengal tiger that she has explained to be a
royal animal that at once attacks and kills a man. She says by adding humour
that if this beautiful black striped animal kills you and eats you, then you have
surely met a Bengal tiger. After this, she says that if the reader met an animal
that has black spotted skin and it at once jumps on him, then it means that the
reader has met a leopard. Moreover, she says that if one will cry out in pain, it
may be of no use as the leopard will not stop attacking him. Then she moves
on to the bear that she says will hug very tightly. This is the way to recognize a
bear as it kills a person by hugging him very tightly. So, she says that the bear
will continue to hug us tightly and that is the only way to recognize him. After
this, she asks a question to the readers that do they know how to recognize
beasts that hunt their prey. Here she explains about hyenas which she thinks
have a smiling face and the crocodiles that have tears in their eyes. This can be
seen when they are killing their prey. The last one in the list is the Chameleon.
She says that it is a lizard - like creature which doesn’t have ears and wings just
like a lizard. Only this can help you differentiate between a lizard and
chameleon. She further says that the chameleon has a quality of changing its
colour according to the colour of the surface. So, to explain this she says that if
the reader looks at the tree and if he can only see the tree, this means that
there is a chameleon sitting on it which has already turned its colour to brown
just like the branch of the tree.