A.1 Answer these questions.
1. Whose song do you hear on a hot summer afternoon?
2. How does the poet describe the grasshopper's song?
3. What does the grasshopper do when it is tired?
4. Whose song do you hear in the winter?
5. Why does the poet say that 'the poetry of earth is
never dead?
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Answer:
1. grasshoppers
We can hear the voice of grasshoppers on summer afternoons. When he is tired he takes rest as ease beneath some pleasant and cooling weeds .
2. Here, in this poem, the grasshopper is a symbol of hot summer and cricket is a symbol of cold winter. The poet says that the music of nature or earth is always alive whether it is hot summer or cold and bleak winter. ... A grasshopper carries on the duty of singing the everlasting song of nature.
3. When the grasshopper is tired, he rests at ease beneath some pleasant weeds.
5. He suggests that these sounds and visuals are all expressions of earth. If they are earth's poetry, then, the poetry of earth is never dead because there is always something living and alert when other things have been sent into hiding by "the hot sun" or the time of year.
I DON'T KNOW THE 4th ANSWER
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1 answer
we can hear the song of a grasshopper on a hot summer afternoon