Q1: What is the grasshopper symbolic of in the poem?
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Autumn
(d) Spring
Q2: According to Keats, what does the earth do in all seasons?
(a) Sleeps
(b) Sings
(c) Cries
(d) Hides
Q3: Where does the grasshopper rest when tired?
(a) On a tree branch
(b) Under some weed
(c) In a nest
(d) On a stone
Q4: What does the cricket sing its beautiful songs from, according to the poem?
(a) Trees
(b) Stones
(c) Grass
(d) Hills
Q5: What feeling does a half-asleep human being associate with the cricket's song?
(a) Warmth from the sun
(b) Melancholy
(c) The chirping of birds
(d) Grasshopper's song from the hills
Q1: In hot summer, when the birds stop singing, the grasshopper is found flying from hedge to ________________.
Q2: The earth expresses its pleasure through different beings like the ________________ in very cold weather.
Q3: The grasshopper rests beneath some ________________ when tired.
Q4: The cricket sings its beautiful songs from the ________________.
Q5: According to the poem, a half-asleep human being feels the cricket's song to be coming from ________________.
Q1: Whose voice do you hear on summer afternoons? Where does he go when he is tired?
Q2: What happens to birds during summer?
Q3: Where do the birds hide to avoid the heat of the sun?
Q4: Which insect takes over from the Grasshopper in winter?
Q5: What happens during winter?
Q6: Who are half lost in drowsiness and why?
Q7: Why does the Cricket’s song sound like the Grasshopper?
Q8: Which words or phrases suggest a sense of relief from the heat of summer in stanza 1?
Q9: Explain what the speaker means when he says, ‘The poetry of earth is ceasing never’.
Q10: Discuss the common features between the grasshopper and the cricket?
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