class 8 the cricket and the grasshopper summary
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Answer- The above question is from the poem 'On the Grasshopper and Cricket' composed by 'John Keats'.
Summary of 'On the Grasshopper and Cricket':
'On the Grasshopper and Cricket' written by 'John Keats' is a nature poem that conveys the idea that the poetry of earth is never dead. In the summer season, when the birds are tired due to hot sun that is shining and they are resting in the trees, a grasshopper runs from hedge to hedge about the newly mown meadow singing songs while in the winter season, when the humans are sub-conscious, it is the cricket who continues to sing the poetry of Earth. Thus, the grasshopper and cricket act as symbols telling that poetry of earth is everlasting.
In the poem ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’, the poet John Keats celebrates the music of the Earth. He finds beauty in hot summer as well as in the cold winter. 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.
During the hot summer, all the singing birds are tired and take rest under the shady branches of trees. But even if they don’t sing the song of nature goes on. We can still hear the voice of the grasshopper who runs from hedge to hedge. He keeps singing tirelessly and when tired rests beneath some weed.
A grasshopper carries on the duty of singing the everlasting song of nature. During summers, he is a fun-loving and cheerful creature and is never done with his delights.
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