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तामिळनाडू बोर्ड ऑफ सेकेंडरी एज्युकेशनएस.एस.एल.सी. (इंग्रजी माध्यम) इयत्ता १०

If given a chance, who would you want to be- the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer. - English

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If given a chance, who would you want to be-the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer.

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उत्तर १

  • Introduction:
    In this poem, we are seeing about an ant and a cricket. If a chance is given. I would be an ant. Let us see what happens if I would be an ant.
  • Being an Ant:
    An ant is wise and active. It works hard. It plans for the future. It saves food for the future. It teaches us a lesson of hard work. We heed to have the ant as our role model. We must also save for the future from our eargjjagsrTfirough this we can live comfortably in old age. We need not depend on others for food like the cricket in the poem.
  • Poet’s advise:
    There are people who live like cricket. They are foolish and lazy to loiter and waste their time. They never work hard. In the future, they suffer a lot for the money. The poet tells that these people are like two-legged crickets. They are worse than the four-legged crickets. The poet advises us to be an ant and not a lazy cricket.
  • Conclusion:
    So, we must be like an ant and not the cricket. We must have the foresight of good and bad times ahead in the future.
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उत्तर २

I want to be an ant. An ant is a symbol of wisdom and hard working. It makes use of the opportunity to work hard to save food for winter. It is aware of the hard times during the winter. It never wastes the time like cricket in singing and dancing.

The cricket is foolish and lazy. They do not save anything. They suffer a lot in the future and old age. They starve like cricket. They borrow for tomorrow and remain in sorrow. We must learn the lesson from the ant. We must plan with foresight for our future and old age. If we live like the ant, we need not worry about future.

‘Work is worship’
‘Hard work is the key to success’

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उत्तर ३

  1. I would be an ant and not cricket.
  2. The ant is wise and hard working.
  3. The ants never borrow nor lend.
  4. It avoids starvation even in famine
  5. Like wise, we also must plan and work hard
  6. We must save to avoid the problems in future.
  7. I wish to be an ant and never miss anything in my future life.

“Be an ant always and never be a cricket”

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Poetry (Class 10th)
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पाठ 4.2: The Ant and the Cricket - Exercise [पृष्ठ ११९]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
पाठ 4.2 The Ant and the Cricket
Exercise | Q C. 3. | पृष्ठ ११९

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Despite the sighs and groans and moans,
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

Is she complaining about the problems of life?


A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!

Add another word that rhymes with it.


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

Why was his cupboard empty?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground.

Why was the ground covered with snow?


Compare and contrast the attitude of the ant and the cricket.


Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal, or oil.


What feelings are evoked in us by the machines in this poem?


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Do the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?


Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon.
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

  1. What is found beneath all uniforms?
  2. What is same for every one of us?
  3. Where are we all going to lie finally?

Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

  1. Who does ‘their’ refer to?
  2. What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
  3. What does not differ?

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