Class VIII CLP On The Grasshopper and Cricket
Class VIII CLP On The Grasshopper and Cricket
Class VIII CLP On The Grasshopper and Cricket
The resilience and beauty of nature is elucidated in the poem. Nature always finds a
way to express itself and be joyous. Nothing in nature is insignificant and even
small insects like the grasshopper and the cricket continue the song of nature.
POETIC DEVICES:
Personification: In the poem, the poet uses ‘he’ for the Grasshopper. One more example is
“the frost has wrought a silence” Frost is symbolised as something living.
Metaphor: In the poem, the poet compares earth’s poetry with the singing of a grasshopper
and also compares the singing of a grasshopper with that of cricket.
Oxymoron: It is a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are combined. e.g.
“pleasant weed”. Weed is an unnecessary thing. However, the poet calls in pleasant because
it is a part of nature.
Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence without a pause, beyond the end of a line,
couplet, or stanza. e.g. “when the frost has wrought a silence”, “from the stove there shrills
the cricket’s song” etc.
Alliteration: “a voice will run”, “from hedge to hedge”, “…winter evening, when…”.
Inversion: it is the inverting of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. e.g. “Poetry of
earth is ceasing never“, “And seems to one is drowsiness half lost“.
SOLVED QUESTIONS
Qi. What is the meaning of the line: ‘The poetry of earth is never dead’?
Ans. The poet wanted to say that poetry of nature is never going to end. No matter what the
season is, whether it is the sweltering summer or the harsh cold winter, the music and the
poetry of nature are never dead.
Q ii. What is the main theme of the poem?
Ans.
TheThe main
earth theme
is full of the poem is that poetry and music in nature do not perish.
of poetry
Q iii. Where do birds take rest on a hot summer day?
Ans. The birds took rest under shady trees to save themselves from the scorching heat of the
During summers, all the birds take refuge in trees.
sun.
Q iv. Discuss with your partner the following definition of a poem.
A The
poem is made of can
grasshopper words arranged
be heard in ahot
in the beautiful
summerorder.
sun. These words, when read aloud with
feelings, have a music and meaning of their own.
ANS: It is true that poetry is made of words arranged in a beautiful order.
Hewords
The takes delight even in
create music the
and summer
produce season.rhythm because of various
a certain
poetic elements such as rhythm, rhyme and meter, fused harmoniously into
one another.
The poetry of earth always continues.
ASSIGNMENT
1.Even
Readinthe
desolate winter
following season,
extract the shrill
and answer thesound of thethat
questions cricket is heard.
follow:
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
Thehide
And person who is trees,
in cooling not fully alertwill
a voice mayrun
think that the cricket's sound as
that of the grasshopper
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
EXTRAPOLATORY QUESTION
Imagine you are the poet from the poem ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’. How did you
enjoy nature? Write your feelings in the form of a diary entry.