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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

And immediately I regretted it.

I thought how paltry, how vulgar, what a mean act!

I despised myself and the voices of my accursed human education.

(b) Why did the poet despise himself?

OR

"Well, you needn't be, because I just came to tell you to stop bothering us for assistance; you ain't going to get it. Were going on strike!"

(b) What was the 'assistance' that was denied?

 

Answer:

(b) The poet despised himself because he had committed a sin of bitting a snake without any reason.

OR

(b) The 'assistance' that was denied here was the ideas which writer used to get from the ghosts of writers.