Poem The Snake Trying

NCERT solutions for Class 9 English The Snake Trying

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English Chapter wise Solutions

Beehive

1. The Fun They Had
2. The Sound of Music
3. The Little Girl
4. A Truly Beautiful Mind
5. The Snake and the Mirror
6. My Childhood
7. Packing
8. Reach for the Top
9. The Bond of Love
10. Kathmandu
11. If I were you

POETRY

1. The Road Not Taken
2. Wind
3. Rain on the Roof
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
5. A Legend of the Northland
6. No Men Are Foreign
7. The Duck and the Kangaroo
8. On Killing a Tree
9. The Snake Trying
10. A Slumber did My Spirit Seal

Moments

1. The Lost Child
2. The Adventures of Toto
3. Iswaran the Storyteller
4. In the Kingdom of Fools
5. The Happy Prince
6. Weathering the Storm in Ersama
7. The Last leaf
8. A House is Not a Home
9. The Accidental
10. The Beggar

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English The Snake Trying

I. 1. What is the snake trying to escape from?
Ans: The snake is trying to escape from the stick.

2. Is it a harmful snake? What is its colour?

Ans: No, it is not a harmful snake. Its small size renders it harmless even to the children. The snake is green in colour.

3. The poet finds the snake beautiful. Find the words he uses to convey its beauty.

Ans: The words the poet uses to convey the snake’s beauty are “beautiful” and “graceful”.

4. What does the poet wish for the snake?

Ans: The poet wishes that the snake be left unharmed. He wants it to go over the water into the reeds to hide.

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English The Snake Trying

5. Where was the snake before anyone saw it and chased it away? Where does the snake disappear?

Ans: The snake was lying on the sand till someone saw it and again chased it away. The snake disappeared in the ripples of the water among the green reeds.

NCERT Solutions for Class 9 English The Snake Trying

II. 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.

Ans: No, all snakes are not poisonous. Some of the poisonous snakes are Indian Cobra, Common Krait, Russell’s Viper and Saw-scaled Viper.