What time of day is described in the second part of the poem ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’?
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Explanation:
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
Objectives
To enable the learners comprehend the topic / poem locally and globally.
To make them enjoy the beauty of the poem.
To make them enjoy the beauty of the poem.
To enable them to know about the significance of the symbolic title
New words
Faint : She got fainted due to prolong illness.
Hide : The thief hid himself behind the curtain.
Delights : He gets delighted in playing cricket.
Shrill : The children shrilled by seeing snake in the garden.
Drowsiness : Some students feel drowsy after having their breakfast.
Key points
1. The earth is full of poetry.
2. On summer season all the birds hide themselves in the cooling shades.
3. But the grasshopper sings in the hot summer season.
4. He enjoys the hot summer season.
5. The poetry of earth never stops.
6. The shrill sound is heard in the very cold winter season.
7. This is the sound of cricket.
8. Even the drowsy person when hears the sound feels it as the grasshopper’s sound.
Summary
It is a symbolic poem in which the grasshopper is a symbol of hot summer and the cricket is of very cold winter.
Every poet has been attracted towards the beauty of nature. John Keats is no exception to this and finds nature beautiful in all seasons not excluding the hot summer and cold winter.
He says that the earth is always singing. When the birds stop singing in the hot summer finding cool place, we find the grasshopper singing and flying from hedge. He sings tirelessly and when tired, rests beneath some weed.
When the birds are silent in very cold the earth never stops and expresses its pleasure through different beings like the cricket. It sings the beautiful songs from the stones. It seems to be increasing in warmth every moment and half-asleep human being feels it to be a grasshopper’s song coming from grassy hills.
Extended learning support
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Short questions and answers
1.What is the theme of the poem?
Ans:- The theme of the poem is that nature is always happy. Nature is never sad. It is always singing through the medium like grasshopper and cricket since the grasshopper sings in summer and cricket in cold winter.
2.When does a grasshopper sing?
Ans:- A grasshopper sings on a hot summer day. When the birds hide in cool shades, the grasshopper runs from hedge to hedge creating a sound which is called the nature’s poetry by the poet.
3.In what atmosphere, according to Keats, does one hear a cricket’s song?
Ans:- The cricket’s song is heard in winter. When it is very cold and quiet, the winter silence is broken by a shrill sound. This is cricket’s song.
Answers of Text Book Questions
1.Discuss with your partner the following definition of a poem.
A poem is made of words arranged in a beautiful order. These words, when read aloud with feeling, have a music and meaning of their own.
Ans. The statement is true. Poetry is really the magic of words and sound. So when these words are read, they give a music of their own. This is there not only in rhythm and rhyme, it is there in the order of the words too.
2.The Poetry of earth’ is not made of words. What is it made of, as suggested in the poem?
Ans. The poetry of earth is made of sounds.
3.Find in the poem lines that match the following.
(i) The grasshopper’s happiness never come to an end.
(ii) The cricket’s song has a warmth that never decreases.
Ans. (i) he has never done with his delights.
(ii) The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever.
4.Which word in stanza 2 is opposite in meaning to ‘the frost’?
Ans. The word is ‘warmth’.
5.The poetry of earth continues round the year through a cycle of two seasons. Mention each with its representative voice.
Ans. The seasons are summer and winter. The summer’s representative voice is – grasshopper’s.
The winter’s representative voice is – cricket’s.
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