Advertisements
Advertisements
Question
Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,
Explain the second line.
Advertisements
Solution
Since the ant closed the door, the poor little cricket had to turn and go away.
APPEARS IN
RELATED QUESTIONS
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.
What couldn’t he find on the ground?
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?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
What would keep him alive?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”
Who does ‘I’ refer to?
Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
He wished only to borrow,
He’d repay it tomorrow.
Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines.
Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.
In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the
cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.
Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?
What metals are obtained from ores and mines? Iron ore.
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.
- What is found beneath all uniforms?
- What is same for every one of us?
- Where are we all going to lie finally?
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
Rumors are constantly being made,
And each day the house just begins to fade.
What happened inside that house?
- Does the house remain the same every day?
- How does the poet consider the house to be a mystery?
