A silly, young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground;
Not a flower could he see,
Not a leaf on a tree.
"Oh! what will become," says the cricket, "of me?"
At last, by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To see if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
He wished only to borrow;
He'd repay it tomorrow;
If not, he must die of starvation and sorrow.
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The poet calls the cricket silly because he just spends his summer singing and enjoying the warm weather and the when winter season arrives he starts complaining that he had no food to eat.
The young cricket was accustomed to singing all day long and enjoyed his good times. The Cricket is called 'silly' in the poem as he shows a lack of judgment and common sense. He was a young Cricket who had sung throughout the bright, happy months of summer and spring.
Explanation:
The ant and the cricket have been personified as human beings with human qualities. Metaphor: 'Some have but two'. 'Some' crickets that have two legs refer to human beings who are as lazy and careless as the cricket. He sang in the warm and sunny months of summer and spring. The ant and the cricket is a fable in the form of poetry by Aesop. the moral of the poem 'the ant and the cricket' is that " if we enjoy today then we will surely suffer tomorrow" as in the poem the cricket just sang day and night in the summer but the ants did work day and night.