Fragment: A Serpent-Face
His face was like a snake's--wrinkled and loose And withered--
Percy Bysshe Shelley
His face was like a snake's--wrinkled and loose And withered--
Percy Bysshe Shelley’s two-line fragment gives us a startling image: a face not just reminiscent of a snake, but explicitly compared to one. The description is merciless — “wrinkled and loose / And withered.” It’s the kind of face that speaks of age, decay, perhaps a life worn thin by cunning or…
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