The Snake Trying Class 9 Question Answer
Textbook Questions:
Thinking about the Poem
I.
Question 1.
What is the snake trying to escape from?
सांप किससे बच निकलने का प्रयास कर रहा है?
Answer:
The snake is trying to escape from a human being who is trying to kill it.
Question 2.
Is it a harmful snake? What is its colour?
क्या सांप हानिकारक है? उसका रंम कैसा है?
Answer:
The snake is harmless. It does not harm even children. The snake is green.
Question 3.
The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.
कवि को सांप सुन्दर लगा। उन शब्दों को बताओ जिनका. प्रयोग उसने उसकी सुन्दरता का वर्णन करने के लिए किया।
Answer:
The poet describes the beautiful snake in the following words :
How beautiful and graceful are his shapes!
Question 4.
What does the poet wish for the snake?
कवि सांप के लिए क्या प्रार्थना करता है?
Answer:
The poet wishes the snake to escape unhurt into the water.
Question 5.
Where was the snake before anyone saw it and chased it away? Where does the snake disappear?
किसी के देखने व पीछा करने से पहले सांप कहाँ था ? सांप कहाँ ओझल हो गया?
Answer:
The snake was relaxing along the sand. It disappeared among thin green reeds in the water.
II.
Question 1.
Find out as much as you can about different kinds of snakes (from books in the library, or from the internet). Are they all poisonous ? Find out the names of some poisonous snakes.
भिन्न-भिन्न प्रकार के सांपों के बारे में जितनी जानकारी प्राप्त कर सको, करें (पुस्तकालय में पुस्तकों से या इंटरनेट पर)। क्या वे सभी विषैले होते हैं? कुछ विषैले सांपों के नाम पता लगाओ।
Answer:
Snakes are long, legless, scaly reptiles. They are found everywhere except the coldest regions and a few islands. All snakes are hunters. Some, such as pythons and boa constrictors squeeze and suffocate their prey to death. Sand snakes hunt down insects and small birds. More than 400 kinds of snakes are poisonous. All of them can not kill humans. Deadly poisonous snakes include cobras, boomslangs, mambas and rattlesnakes.
Question 2.
Look for information on how to find out whether a snake is harmful.
Answer:
Poisonous snakes have fangs. Fangs are a pair of hollow teeth at the front of the upper jaw. The fangs lie flat along the jaw. They swing forward when the snake bites.
Question 3.
As you know, from the previous lesson you have just read, there are people in our country who have traditional knowledge about snakes, who even catch poisonous snakes with almost their bare hands. Can you find out something more about them?
जैसे आपने पिछले पाठ में पढ़ा, कुछ लोग हमारे देश में हैं जिन्हें सांपों के बारे में पारम्परिक ज्ञान है। वे विषैले सांपों को लगभग नंगे हाथों से पकड़ सकते हैं। क्या आप उनके बारे में कुछ और जानकारी प्राप्त कर सकते हो ?
Answer:
Snake charmers have been entertaining people in India and Africa. They can catch and keep snakes. They fascinate snakes with movements of their flute and the snakes appear to sway to the music. Now snake charmers are becoming less and less popular. They find it hard to earn their living.
Read this poem by B.R. Lakshman Rao:
GREEN SNAKE:
Early morning, the day before yesterday,
under a slab of stone,
in a crack,
eyes glittering,
forked tongue licking and flashing,
a frog swelling his belly,
he lay there quietly :
a baby snake, two hands long,
a green snake.
‘Poor thing. It’s a green snake. Still a baby.
What harm can it do ?’ I said.
My father replied,
‘A snake’s a snake.’
And mother,
‘That’s where everyone walks.
We don’t need trouble. Kill it.’
‘I can’t,’ I said.
Father struck him with a piece of firewood,
chased him outside, and killed him flat.
– B.R. Lakshman Rao (Translated by A.K. Ramanujan)
Vocabulary : slab (स्लैब) thin flat rectangular piece पत्थर की चौकोर पटिया; crack (क्रैक) chink दरार; glittering ( ग्लिटरिंग) shining चमकता हुआ; forked (फार्कड) having two points दो सिरों वाला; licking (लिकंग) passing tongue over and round चाटना; flashing (फ्लेशिंग) appear suddenly तेजी से प्रकट होने वाली; swelling (स्वेलिंग) puffing up फूला हुआ।
अनुवाद : हरा सांप-परसों सवेरे एक पत्थर की पटिया के नीचे एक दरार में एक हरा सांप का बच्चा शान्त लेटा था उसकी आँखें चमक रही थीं, उसकी दो सिरों वाली जीभ बार-बार तेजी से आ-जा रही थी और उसका पेट मेंढक खाने से फूला हुआ था। वह दो हाथ लम्बा था।
मैंने कहा, ” यह बेचारा हरा सांप, जो अभी बच्चा ही है, किसी को क्या हानि पहुँचा सकता है। मेरे पिताजी बोले, “सांप तो सांप है” और माँ बोली, ” यहाँ सब आते-जाते हैं, कोई परेशानी न हो। इसे मार दो।”
“मैं नहीं मार सकता”, मैंने कहा !
पिताजी ने उसे एक लकड़ी उठा कर मारी, उसके पीछे-पीछे-बाहर गए और उसे मार कर चपटा कर दिया।
IV. Very Important Examination Questions:
Short Answer Type Questions
II. Answer the following questions in about 30-40 words:
Question 1.
Where was the snake chased away from?
साँप को कहाँ से भगाया गया?
Answer:
The snake was lying quietly along the sand. But he could rest there only till the time he was observed. Once he was observed, he was chased away.
Question 2.
What reason does the poet give for not killing the snake?
साँप को न मारने का लेखक ने क्या कारण दिया?
Answer:
The poet is giving the reason that he is harmless. He is not poisonous. So it should not be killed and should be left unharmed and untouched.
Question 3.
Where does the snake hide itself ?
साँप ने स्वयं को कहाँ छिपा लिया?
Answer:
The snake quickly glides over the water hiding himself between the reeds.
Question 4.
Where does the snake vanish?
साँप कहाँ गायब हो गया?
Answer:
The snake is lying along the sand. But he is safe only till the time he is not observed. Once he is spotted, he is chased and he vanishes into the water.
Question 5.
What was the snake trying to do?
साँप क्या करने की कोशिश कर रहा था?
Answer:
The snake was trying to escape the pursuing stick. He was afraid of the stick lest it should kill or hurt him.
Question 6.
What is the poet’s appeal for the snake?
कवि ने साँप से क्या याचना की?
Or
What is the poet’s wish for the snake?
साँप के लिए कवि की क्या इच्छा थी?
Answer:
The poet appeals to let the snake go over the water and hide into the reeds without being hurt.
Long Answer Type Questions
III. Answer the following questions in about 100-150 words:
Question 1.
Discuss man’s attitude towards snakes in general as represented in the poem “The Snake Trying”.
आमतौर से मनुष्यों की साँपों के प्रति क्या धारणा होती है-कविता ‘दा स्नेक ट्राईंग’ के माध्यम से समझाएँ।
Answer:
Snakes may or may not be poisonous. So, all the snakes do not pose a threat to man. It is the man who always chases the snakes away with ‘pursuing’ sticks for no valid reason.
Whenever a snake is out in the open, he can rest peacefully only till the time he is not observed. Once he is noticed by the man, he is chased away. Man does not seem to understand that he is targeting an innocent creature who is ‘harmless even to children’.
The snake is an inhabitant of the planet earth and should be allowed to exist “without hurt”. Besides, man should learn to appreciate how ‘beautiful’ and ‘graceful’ a snake is.
Question 2.
How does the poet feel about the snake as portrayed in the poem “The Snake Trying”?
कविता ‘दा स्नेक ट्राईंग’ के अनुसार कवि साँप के बारे में क्या धारणा रखता है।
Answer:
The poet’s attitude towards the snake is quite sympathetic. As the poem begins, the poet describes the snake as escaping the “pursuing stick”. He is a victim of man’s whims and fancies. The poet expresses his concern for the snake pleading to “let him go”, He should be allowed to glide over the water and hide into the reeds “Without hurt”.
He is also convinced of the snake’s innocence for the latter is harmless ‘even to children’. The creature has been relaxing under the sun along the sand and is chased away for no reason. According to W.W.E. Ross, the poet, the snake is not only innocent, but also has a ‘thin long body that curves into beautiful and graceful shapes.
I. Summary In English:
A small green snake was lying on the sand. It looked beautiful. It was harmless even to children. Someone saw it, and ran after it with a stick. He wanted to kill it. The snake immediately slid away. It went into the water and hid itself among green reeds.
II. Complete Text With Hindi Translation and Extract Based Objective Type Questions:
STANZA I:
The snake trying
to escape the pursuing stick,
with sudden curvings of thin
long body. How beautiful
and graceful are his shapes!
he glides through the water away
from the stroke.
Vocabulary : escape (एस्केप) run away unhurt बचकर निकलना; pursuing (परस्यूइंग) chasing पीछा करने वाली; curvings (कर्विंग्स) bending in and out बलखाती हुई; graceful (ग्रेसफुल) elegant शोभा युक्त; glides (ग्लाइड्ज) move smoothly सरकना, फिसलना; stroke (स्ट्रोक) blow आघात।
अनुवाद : पीछा करती हुई लाठी से बच भागने का प्रयास करते हुए सांप का पतला-सा शरीर अचानक बल खाता हुआ भागता है। उसकी आकृति कैसी सुन्दर व शोभा युक्त है। वह आघात से बचने के लिए पानी में से तैरता जाता है।
(i) What did the snake try to escape?
(a) Someone who was chasing it to kill.
(b) Children who were throwing stones at it.
(c) The mongoose chasing it.
(d) The snake charmer trying to catch it.
Answer:
(a) Someone who was chasing it to kill.
(ii) How did it glide?
(a) It curled its body and glided.
(b) It glided by curving its long body.
(c) It glided keeping its body straight.
(d) It glided by twisting its body.
Answer:
(b) It glided by curving its long body.
(iii) How did the snake appear to the poet?
(а) Beautiful and graceful
(b) Dangerous
(c) Timid
(d) Harmless
Answer:
(а) Beautiful and graceful
(iv) The word ‘pursuing; means :
(a) chasing
(b) striking
(c) moving speedily
(d) thick
Answer:
(a) chasing
(v) What is pursuing it?
Answer:
A stick is pursuing it.
(vi) How is the snake trying to escape?
Answer:
The snake is trying to escape by curving his thin long body and gliding through the water.
(vii) What does the poet like most about the snake?
Answer:
The snake’s harmless nature, his slender and graceful body is what the poet like most about the snake.
(viii) Where does the snake go and why?
Answer:
He glides through the water into the roads to escape the pursuing stick.
(ix) Who has composed the above lines?
Answer:
The above lines are composed by W.W.E. Ross.
(x) Who does ‘his’ in the above mentioned lines refer to?
Answer:
The word “his’ in the above mentioned lines refers to the snake.
(xi) Whose stick is pursuing him?
Answer:
The snake is either being attacked or about to be attacked by a man’s stick.
(xii) What kind of body does the snake has?
Answer:
The snake has thin and long body.
(xiii) How is the shape of the snake described?
Answer:
The shape of the snake is described as beautiful and graceful.
(xiv) Which poetic device is used in the second line?
Answer:
The poetic device used in the second line in ‘pursuing stick’ is personification.
(xv) Why does it glide through the water away?
Answer:
For the fear of being killed, the snake glides through the water away.
(xvi) What stroke does the poet talk about?
Answer:
The poet talks about strokes with sticks.
STANZA II:
O let him go
over the water
into the reeds to hide
without hurt. Small and green
he is harmless even to children.
Along the sand he lay until observed and chased away, and now he vanishes in the ripples among the green slim reeds.
Vocabulary : reeds (रीड्ज) water plant with thick stems नरकट; harmless (हार्मलैस) unlikely to hurt जो कोई हानि न पहुँचाए; observed (आब्जर्व्ड) noticed दिखाई दिया; chased away ( चेज्ड अवे) driven away पीछा करके भगा दिया; vanishes (वेनिशिज) disappears ओझल; ripple (रिपल) small waves तरंगें; slim (स्लिम) thin पतले।
अनुवाद : अरे, उसे बिना चोट खाए पानी में से नरकटों में छुपने के लिए जाने दो। छोटा-सा यह हरा सांप बच्चों को भी नहीं काटता। जब उसे देखा था वह रेत में लेटा था, और उसका पीछा करके उसे भगा दिया गया। और अब वह पतले हरे नरकटों के बीच में ओझल हो गया है।
(i) Where was the snake when someone saw it?
(a) Near a bush.
(b) Behind a stone.
(c) In the grass.
(d) Lying along the sand.
Answer:
(d) Lying along the sand.
(ii) Where did it hide itself ?
(а) It hid among the green reeds in the water.
(b) It hid in a green creeper.
(c) It hid in the heap of leaves.
(d) It hid behind a massy stone.
Answer:
(а) It hid among the green reeds in the water.
(iii) Why do you think it chose to hide among the green reeds?
(a) Because that was the nearest place to hide.
(b) Because they were under water.
(c) Because they were long and slim.
(d) Because they were the same colour as its body.
Answer:
(d) Because they were the same colour as its body.
(iv) What did the poet think of the snake?
(a) It was a harmless snake.
(b) It was not attacking anyone.
(c) It was a small beautiful snake.
(d) It was lying and resting so should not be killed.
Answer:
(a) It was a harmless snake.
(v) The word ‘he’ in the above extract refers to _________.
Answer:
the ‘snake’.
(vi) To save himself the snake disappeared in _________.
Answer:
the ripples among the green slim reeds
(vii) The snake mentioned in the above extract is _________ .
Answer:
‘harmless even to children’
(viii) The snake is lying _________.
Answer:
along the sand.
(ix) Where is the snake lying?
Answer:
The snake is lying along the sand.
(x) Why does it try to escape?
Answer:
Being chased away to be killed, it tries to escape.
(xi) Where does the snake vanishes into?
Answer:
The snake vanishes into the green slim reds.