The climax of the poem the hunting of Shumba. is the hunting of prey by the predator, Shumba, a lion.
This refers to the highest point of a story or narration that builds suspense and is usually intense and captivating.
Hence, we can see that based on some excerpts from the poem:
A grass-blade breaking!
Swift in awful calm,
The mighty limbs at length along the ground;
Steel muscles tightening -
A sense of harm,
Intangible... no shadow of a sound...
But savage eyes unveil'd,
Intense as death;
Purs'd lips and lower'd ears and bated breath, Dread vigour hail'd
From every nerve and tissue - crouching there
Blent with grass,- incarnate, awful fear !
A leap a scream
a thud; And it is done.
Silence awhile, and the hot smell of blood.
Silence, then slowly, with the sinking sun, The rend of flesh....The crickets wake and sing,
The frogs take up their song, the night-jars wing
Weird in the azure dusk. As had been will'd,
The poet describes the actions of Shumba as he stalks his prey and how he is careful in order to capture and devour his prey and this is the climax of the poem.
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