2. Write down the summary of the poem The
ant and the cricket.
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The poem “The Ant and the Cricket” is a fable (a story, consisting of animals as characters, that conveys a moral) written in a poetic format. It is about a silly young cricket and a miser ant. The cricket used to sing all day long and enjoy his good times during the summer season.
He lacked farsightedness, for he never had plans for his future. When the winter arrived, cricket couldn’t find a small amount of food to eat. So the cricket thinks to go to ant to borrow food and to get shelter.
The Cricket knocked on the ant’s door asking to help. Then ant questioned the cricket what he was doing during summer. The poem ends with the ant asking the cricket to try dancing and singing again during his hard times.
Moral: We should work harder for our own sake and for the time of troubles. Moreover, always remembers that today’s saving is tomorrow’s income.
Summary of:- The ant and the Cricket
Once, there was a foolish young cricket. He was always singing and dancing. He spent the happy days of summer and spring singing. He layby nothing for the rainy days.
The winter set in the background and trees were covered with snow. The cricket had nothing to eat. He begin to starve. He was sure that he would die without food. So, he went to the ant. He requested to lend him a mouthfull of grain. He promised it to return the great next day. The wise ant told him that the ants neither borrow nor lend.
Then the ant asked him if he had lain by nothing for the winter. The cricket replued that the weather was very fine so he sang day and night. On listen to these words the ant said to him, " Go, dance the winter away". Saying this it facility opened its doors or at the idle cricket out of his house.
It is a fable with the moral that one must work hard and save for the rainy day. If you live without work you must live without food.