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2.The Poetry of earth’ is not made of words. What is it made of, as suggested
in the poem?
Ans. The poetry of earth is made of sounds.

3.Find in the poem lines that match the following.
(i) The grasshopper’s happiness never come to an end.

(ii) The cricket’s song has a warmth that never decreases.
Ans. (i) he has never done with his delights.

(ii) The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever.

4.Which word in stanza 2 is opposite in meaning to ‘the frost’?
Ans. The word is ‘warmth’.

5.The poetry of earth continues round the year through a cycle of two seasons.
Mention each with its representative voice.
Ans. The seasons are summer and winter. The summer’s representative voice
is – grasshopper’s.

The winter’s representative voice is – cricket’s.
STANZA -1

The poetry and music of the earth never ends. When all the birds are
tired because of the heat of the sun and hide themselves in the cooling trees, a
voice can be heard. The voice is of grasshoppers. He takes the leading role in
enjoying the summer happiness as if he has never done with his delights. And
he is tired he takes rest beneath a pleasant weed.

STANZA – 2

The poetry of Earth never ends. On a lonely winter evening when the
frost has brought silence, one can near the swills of the cricket from the stone.