On the Grasshopper and Cricket - Worksheets

CBSE WorkSheet 01
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
  1. When did the cricket realise a change in his circumstances? Write your answer in the context of The Grasshopper and Cricket.
  2. What atmosphere, according to Keats, does one hear a cricket’s song? Answer in the context of On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
  3. What is the theme of the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket?
  4. The poetry of earth is not made of words. What is it made of, as suggested in the poem? Answer in the context of  On the Grasshopper and Cricket.
  5. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones:
    The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
    On a lone winter evening when the frost
    Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills
    The cricket’s song, in warmth, increasing ever,
    1. The poetry of earth is
      (a) pleasant
      (b) unpleasant
      (c) constant
      (d) loud
    2. The winter evening is 'lone' because
      (a) the poet has no company
      (b) there is silence all around
      (c) there is frost
      (d) it is cold
    3. The cricket’s song
      (a) pleases everybody
      (b) breaks winter’s depression
      (c) makes people angry
      (d) is disliked by the people
  6. Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow choosing the correct options from among the given ones:
    That is the grasshopper’s-he takes the lead
    In summer luxury-he has never done
    With his delights, for when tired out with fun
    He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
    1. the word that refers to
      (a) the voice
      (b) the insect
      (c) the bird
      (d) the hedge
    2. The grasshopper is happy in
      (a) winter
      (b) spring
      (c) summer
      (d) autumn
    3. The grasshopper has never done means
      (a) he is never crying
      (b) he is never content
      (c) he is always singing
      (d) he is always on the move
CBSE WorkSheet 01
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Solution
  1. The cricket realized a change in his circumstances when he saw that his cupboards were empty and the winter had come.
  2. 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.
  3. The theme of the poem ‘On the Grasshopper and the Cricket' is that nature is always happy. Nature is never sad. It is always singing. Its poetry is sometimes heard through birds and sometimes through other creatures. The Grasshopper sings in summer and the cricket sings in winter.
  4. The poetry of earth is made of the chirping of birds in trees, and a grasshopper's sound. they sing joyfully without a ling break.
  5. i. (c), ii. (b), iii. (b).
  6. i. (a), ii. (c), iii. (b).