Go then,” says the ant,“and dance the winter away”.
Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket.
Folks call this fable I’ll warrant it true;
a. The ant tells the cricket to dance the winter away.Do you think the word dance is appropriate here?If so, why?
b. Is this poem a fable? If yes, what is a fable?
c. How does the poet compare the cricket to the human being?
d. Name the poem.
Answers
Answer:
a.The ant told the cricket to “dance the winter away” because when it asked the cricket what it did in the summers and why it had not stored any food for summers the cricket answered that it sang through the warm and sunny months of summers.
b.A fable is a type of fictional story that has characters of unrealistic shapes and sizes. ... A fable can also be called as a poetic story as they may be fictional and may have a short story like a poem. This is why poems are also called fables.
c.The poem is about a careless cricket and a hardworking ant. We all know that ants are hardworking creatures. The cricket, on the other hand, was a lazy being that just sang day and night and made no efforts to plan for the future.
d.don't know you have the above the lesson
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