Question

“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 he could see,
Not a leaf on a tree.”

a) Name the poem and the poet of the given stanza.
b) What was the cricket doing during the summer and spring?
c) Why did he begin to complain?
d) Write any two rhyming words from the given stanza.

Answer 1

a) The Ant And The Cricket by Aesop

b) The cricket enjoyed singing during summer and spring.

c) He began to complaint because he found that, at home, his cupboard was empty, and winter had come.

d) sing - spring