CBSE Class 8 · English · Honeydew
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Class 8 English.
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About the author
John Keats (1795–1821) was a leading English Romantic poet. This sonnet shows that earth's poetry never dies - summer grasshopper or winter cricket carries song on.
Summary
The poetry of earth is never dead - always a voice sings.
The poetry of earth is never dead - always a voice sings.
When birds faint in cooling trees, the grasshopper takes up the song.
When birds faint in cooling trees, the grasshopper takes up the song.
He runs from hedge to hedge; fun increases as he rests beneath pleasant weed.
He runs from hedge to hedge; fun increases as he rests beneath pleasant weed.
He rests at ease and flings voice until new mirth fills the meadow.
He rests at ease and flings voice until new mirth fills the meadow.
When frost has wrought silence, the cricket's shrill song from the stove.
When frost has wrought silence, the cricket's shrill song from the stove.
To one half-lost in drowsiness the cricket seems a grasshopper in grass.
To one half-lost in drowsiness the cricket seems a grasshopper in grass.
Summer grasshopper and winter cricket together keep earth's poetry alive.
Summer grasshopper and winter cricket together keep earth's poetry alive.
Hard words & meanings
| sonnet | 14-line poem |
| stanza | group of lines in a poem |
| rhyme | words ending with similar sounds |
| imagery | word pictures |
| metaphor | comparison without like/as |
| refrain | repeated line |
| cooling | see chapter context |
| grasshopper | see chapter context |
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