Question

Read the following stanzas and answer the questions given below them:

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 could he see.
Not a leaf on a tree.
"Oh! what will become," says the cricket. "of me ?"

Questions :
(1) What does the expression 'sunny months' mean?
(2) Why is 'Not a crumb to be found' ?
(3) What does the last line of this stanza suggest ?​

Answer 1

1. sunny months means Gay summer and spring.

2.on the snow covered ground.

3.oh!what will become

Answer 2

Answer:

The expression Sunny means the time during the summer season.

In the cricket's house a crumb is not to be found because the cricket spend the whole summer singing and enjoying the warmth. He didn't gather the food during summer and that's why during winter he didn't have any food left.

The cricket understood his mistake and realised he would be starving because he didn't have any food left .So knowing that in winter it is very difficult to collect food as not a leaf is left on the trees he shattered his thoughts of sorrowful misery.