'The Snail'- a poem by William Cowper
Hello Friends... Sure, we all are doing well... Be careful, we must stay fit and shouldn't fall ill getting our studies affected. We shall eat and drink healthy, exercise regularly, and won't avoid our domestic and social responsibilities. And whatever time we get for ourselves at the end of the day, we must study hard for most of the time, so that we learn to think... and learn. We simply cannot afford to stop thinking, for we are learners, and we are the chosen ones who got the scope to learn... Let's learn to think first... The Discussion Here we meet once again to read the poem 'The Snail' by William Cowper together. It is a short poem translated in to English by Cowper from the original Latin poem 'Limax' composed by his teacher Vincent Bourne, a renowned and oft-discussed English man writing poems in Latin. Why did William choose to translate this poem? What are the merits of the composition? Let's read the poem first to find out. If you know th...