On the Grasshopper and Cricket NCERT Text Book Questions and Answers

On the Grasshopper and Cricket Working with the poem (Page 123)

Question 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.
Answer:
In a poem the words of the poet’s thinking are arranged in such a manner that they appeal a melodious tone though they’re not grammatically correct.

Question 2.
The ‘poetry of earth’ is not made of words. What is it made of, as suggested in the poem ?
Answer:
“The poetry of earth’ is made of the songs of its creatures like grasshopper and cricket.

Question 3.
Find in the poem lines that match the following.
(i) The grasshopper’s happiness never comes an end
(ii) The cricket’s song has a warmth that never decreases.
Answer:
(i) ……he has never done with his delights
(ii) ……in warmth increasing ever

Question 4.
Which word in stanza 2 is opposite in meaning to the frosť?
Answer:
warmth

Question 5.
The poetry of earth continues round the year through a cycle of two seasons. Mention each with its representative voice.
Answer:
The season of summer – the grasshopper
The season of winter – the cricket

On the Grasshopper and Cricket Introduction

The poem ‘On the Grasshopper and Cricket’ is a nature poem. The grasshopper and cricket are the symbols here suggesting something else that the earth keeps on through summer and winter in a never-ending song. It is a cycle of two seasons. Each and every season has its own importance whether it is scroching summer or chilly winter.