Question

Q11. Read the following extract and answers that follow: 1x5=5

The poetry of earth is ceasing ever:

On a lone winter evening when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills

The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost;

The grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

a) What is special about the poetry of the earth?

b) What has the frost done?

c) Whose song is heard from the stone?

d) How is the warmth of the song?

e) Name the poem and the poet.​

Answer 1

Explanation:

On a lone winter evening when the frost. Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills. The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost; The grasshopper's ...

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