Professor DC's video: The Mosquito ENGLISH Explanation D H Lawrence ICSE English Poem Word Meanings Summary

Summary of the poem - The Mosquito by D.H.Lawrene The poem ‘The Mosquito’ by D.H. Lawrence is about the poet’s disgust about mosquitoes in general. He has masterfully depicted the characteristics and movements a mosquito makes hovering around human beings. In the first stanza, the poet asks a mosquito when it started its tricks; why it stands on its high legs. In the second stanza, it asks it if its queerly light body is to deceive human beings about its physicality so that it can alight on its prey without being detected.   In the third stanza, the poet says in Venice a woman called mosquitoes the Winged Victory; and the mosquito smiled on it. In the fourth stanza, the poet asks the mosquito how it could be so fatal in spite of being so small in size. In the fifth stanza, the poet wonders how strangely and invisibly it flutters and flits like a heron. In the sixth stanza, the poet is amazed at its evil aura and its ability to make his mind numb. It uses its anesthetic bite and small transparent body to stay undetected. But the poet says he knows all its tricks now. In the seventh stanza, the poet wonders how it stalks and prowls like a ghoul on wings searching for blood from its prey. In the eights stanza, the poet says he knows when it sits cunningly on his skin to suck blood. In the ninth stanza, the poet says it hates its clandestine moves after becoming aware of the danger from him. In the tenth stanza, the poet challenges it to a game of bluff and see who wins in it – the poet or the mosquito. In the eleventh stanza, the poet says it does not know the mosquito exists and vice versa. The poet says mosquito’s trump of humming in his ear that shakes him. He complains to him why it hums cunningly. Then the poet is told mosquito can’t control its humming. In the twelfth stanza, the poet expresses gratitude to God for making the mosquito hum because this humming is helpful in detecting its presence. As the mosquito sits on the poet’s scalp sucking his blood ecstatically. In the thirteenth stanza, the poet is shocked at the mosquito’s silent gorging on his blood and vulgar trespassing.   In the fourteenth stanza, the poet describes the mosquito as it staggers to fly away after drinking his blood. The poet in anger tries to swat it as it tries to fly away singing a song of victory. In the last stanza, the poet asks himself if he cannot overtake his adversary and outwit it. The poet finally succeeds in swatting it and killing it; a smudge of blood is formed where the poet has swatted it. The End. Have something you do not understand? Let the Professor know in the comment section!