On the Grasshopper and Cricket By Keats

The poetry of 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;

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.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

1.
Complete the sentences.
1. ______________ tells us that the 'poetry of the earth' is not dead in summer.
2. The birds avoid the heat by ______________.
3. The grasshopper rests under the weed after ______________.
4. In winter the silence is broken by ______________.
5. The cricket's song seems like ______________.
2.
Choose the correct answer.
1. In the hot sun, the birds
  1. chirp in delight.
  2. feel faint.
  3. fly about.
2. The grasshopper's voice can be heard in the meadow from
  1. hedge to hedge.
  2. pillar to post.
  3. tree to tree.
3. In winter, the cricket finds shelter
  1. in the pantry.
  2. among grassy hills.
  3. by the stove.
4. In winter, one feels
  1. drowsy.
  2. like dancing.
  3. cold.
5. The cricket's song reminds one of the
  1. butterflies in summer.
  2. grasshopper in summer.
  3. birds singing in summer.
3.
Find suitable words or phrases from the poem which mean-
1. ending
2. enjoyment
3. to be ahead
4. caused, created
5. frozen moisture