On the grasshopper and 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. Questions for group discussion, or for written work. Describe the setting and the activities of the octave. (4) Describe the setting and the activities of the sestet. (4) Describe the listener in the couplet, and the impact of the " poetry of earth " on the listener. (2) ​