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

Answer:

a) The central idea of the poem is the tenacity of the grasshopper and the cricket to provide entertainment and joy to us through their respective songs. Their songs represent the poetry of earth that never ceases exist even during extreme circumstances.

b) In an isolated winter evening, when frost has put everyone and everything to silent mode, you can still hear the song of Cricket coming from the stove. So, the chilly atmosphere forces the cricket to seek warmth indoors but cannot stop his music. Rather, his music gets louder with time (in warmth increasing ever).

c) idk

d) idk

e) The Grasshopper and The Cricket by John Keats

Answer 2

Answer:

idk, look it up on gooooogle