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This document provides analysis of the poem "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" including: 1. It identifies the genre as a sonnet with an octet and sestet rhyme scheme. 2. It analyzes the imagery used including visual, auditory, tactile, and describes symbolism of the seasons. 3. It discusses the themes of optimism and persistence conveyed through the grasshopper and cricket persisting despite changes in season. The document then provides assignments for students to complete including answering questions about the poem and its analysis, narrating a nature trail experience using imagery, and completing exercises from the textbook.

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This document provides analysis of the poem "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" including: 1. It identifies the genre as a sonnet with an octet and sestet rhyme scheme. 2. It analyzes the imagery used including visual, auditory, tactile, and describes symbolism of the seasons. 3. It discusses the themes of optimism and persistence conveyed through the grasshopper and cricket persisting despite changes in season. The document then provides assignments for students to complete including answering questions about the poem and its analysis, narrating a nature trail experience using imagery, and completing exercises from the textbook.

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On the Grasshopper and

Cricket
Literary Analysis
Genre
Genre
Genre- Poetry
Sub Genre-
Sonnet

Sonnet (14 lines) poem that rhymes in a particular pattern


divide the lines into 2 sections
Octet: First 8 lines
Sestet: last 6 lines
Rhyme
Scheme
 The little girl fell on her knee a
 The little girl said Oweee a

 She cried a few tears b


 She survived her fears b

 I gave her a kiss c


 And she played again with bliss c
a
b
b
a
a
b
b
abba, abba,
a cde, cde
c
d
e
c
d
e
The poetry of the earth is never
dead

a voice will run

for when tired out with fun

On a lone winter evening

When the frost has wrought a


silence
New-mown mead
Identify the Imagery used
Line/Phrase Visual Auditory Tactile Olfactory Gustator
y
From the stove there shrills

In cooling trees

beneath some pleasant weed

A voice will run

The Cricket’s song

winter evening
Imagery in the poem
Visual Imagery

 From the stove there shrills

 beneath some pleasant


weed
Imagery in the poem Auditory
Imagery

 A voice will run

 From the stove there shrills

 The Cricket’s song


Imagery in the poem
Tactile Imagery

 In cooling trees

 Winter evening
Symbolism
Symbolism used in the poem

Summer
season

Winter
season
.
Optimism and Persistence
-Both the Grasshopper and the Cricket are
persistent despite the harsh weather and
the change in season.

- Nature too never stops

- All this gives us a sense of being


optimistic and persistent
Assignments

Please note: Students can write down their


assignments in the Note pad sheets or any A4
size paper and will submit to the teacher once
the school begins.
Lets check
your
understandi
H.W-1

Q1. Read the extract below and answer the following questions:

“The poetry of the earth is never dead:


When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new mown- mead;”

i. What does the poet mean when he says ‘The poetry of the earth is never dead’?
Ans: When the poet says ‘The poetry of the earth is never dead’ he is implying that nature
continues despite the season. Be it he harsh summers or the lone winters the earth is never
affected by it, it continues being persistent.
ii. How has the poet described the two seasons in this poem?
Ans: The poet describes the summer as very lively as the birds hide in the cool trees when they faint
with the hot sun but the grasshopper takes the lead and tirelessly runs about from hedge to hedge about
the new mown- mead and when tired he rests beneath some pleasant weed.

The winters however are frosty and lonely and while the poet sits by the fireplace the cricket’s song
increases the warmth and reminds him of the grasshopper and the summer.

iii. Elaborate on the symbolism used in this poem.


Ans: In this poem , the poet has beautifully used two little creatures symbolically. The poet has used
the Grasshopper to symbolically represent the season of summer and the Cricket to symbolically
represent the season of winter.

iv. Name and explain the personification used in this poem.


Ans: Personification is a figure of speech in which a non living thing or an abstract idea are given
human qualities. Throughout the poem the poet has made elaborate used of personification.
Some examples are The poetry of the earth is never dead, On a lone winter evening,
When the frost has wrought a silence, etc
v. Imagine you had been on a nature trail . Narrate your experience vividly employing various imageries.
Ans: Personal Response

vi. Solve A3 on Pg 13 from your text book.

vii. Draw the table on slide 17 and tick the correct answers.
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