Multiple choice

Who sings the song in the winters?

Directions: Read the following poem carefully and answer the given question:

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
                                 By John Keats
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 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.

  1. The cricket

  2. The grasshopper

  3. The birds

  4. The nightingale

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A Correct answer
Explanation

The poem explicitly states that in winter, 'from the stove there shrills / The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever'. This confirms that the cricket is the one singing during winter months, while the grasshopper's song is associated with summer. The key distinction is seasonal - grasshopper represents summer sounds, cricket represents winter sounds.