Question

Stanza wise meaning of the ant and the cricket

Answer 1

The poem is based on a fable of a diligent ant and a silly cricket. The cricket rejoiced all the day in singing and dancing. He didn’t care to save for the future. During the summer neither he stored food nor he built shelter. On the onset of winter he discovered his cupboard was empty. He also did not have shelter to save him from trembling cold. To survive, the cricket knocked at the door of the ant for help.
The ant became annoyed with the cricket and said that the cricket must be suffered for wrongdoing. Ants are industrious and never borrow or lend. The ant also asked the cricket to try merrymaking during the adverse times.
Moral: The poem conveys a significant moral. One should not be negligent about future while enjoy happy moments.

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Answer 2

Once upon a time... one hot summer, a cricket sang cheerfully on the branch of a tree, while down below, a long line of ants struggled gamely under the weight of their load of grains; and between one song and the next, the cricket spoke to the ants. "Why are you working so hard? Come into the shade, away from the sun, and sing a song with me." But the tireless ants went on with the work... "We can't do that," they said, "We must store away food for the winter. When the weather`s cold and the ground white with snow, there's nothing to eat, and we'll survive the winter only if the pantry is full." 

  "There's plenty of summer to come," replied the cricket, "and lots of time to fill the pantry before winter. I'd rather sing! How can anyone work in this heat and sun?" 

And so all summer, the cricket sang while the ants laboured. But the days turned into weeks and the weeks into months. Autumn came, the leaves began to fall and the cricket left the bare tree. The grass too was turning thin and yellow. One morning, the cricket woke shivering with cold. An early frost tinged the fields with white and turned the last of the green leaves brown: winter had come at last.