A narrow Fellow in the Grass Literary Elements

The poem is told from the perspective of a male first-person speaker's point of view. He begins with a more general overview of the "narrow fellow's" characteristics before delving deeper into his own boyhood recollections.

The poem is written in blank verse, with no rhyme scheme.

The main metaphor in the poem is the snake's relationship with the speaker. The snake is a dangerous creature and the narrator recognizes its power. At the same time, the narrator feels unable to stay away from the snake and wants to grasp it. The snake is used here as an extended metaphor for nature. The speaker suggests that humans always feels the need to control nature when it frightens them.

There is alliteration in the S sounds of the line "A spotted Shaft is seen" and the B sounds in the line "But when a Boy and Barefoot."

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Nature poetry

The action described in the poem takes place in an open field at noon.

The tone used in the poem is a mixture of wonder and fear.

The narrator is the protagonist and the antagonist is the snake.

The major conflict is between the speaker's desire to understand and conquer the snake and his instinct to run away from it.

The poem reaches its climax when the speaker reaches for the snake and it slips away from his hands.

The phrase "notice instant" in the first line of the poem foreshadows the "narrow fellow" being a frightening snake.

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There is personification in the line "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" as it refers to the snake as a male human.

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Onomatopoeia is present in the line “hissing as he goes.”