On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
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.
15. The poet’s primary aim is to
(A) distinguish crickets from grasshoppers
(B) contrast summer and winter
(C) point out the harshness of nature
(D) admire the continuity of nature
(E) criticize the grasshopper and praise the
cricket
16. The poet uses the phrase “poetry of earth” to
refer to the
(A) changing of the seasons
(B) sounds of animals
(C) vegetation
(D) temperature
(E) poet’s role in nature
17. Why in line 9 does the poet use language that
is very similar to that used in line 1?
(A) To summarize the content of lines 1
through 8
(B) To suggest that lines 9 through 14 will
contradict lines 1 through 8
(C) To emphasize that lines 9 through 14 will
help prove the point announced in line 1
(D) To minimize the significance of the ideas
developed in lines 1 through 8
(E) To signal the reader that lines 9 through
14 will address a different topic
18. The poem creates a contrast between all of the
following pairs of words EXCEPT
(A) sun and frost
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