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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetry2010/11 · Oct/Nov 2011 · Q1925 Marks

Read this poem and then answer the question that follows it: 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. (by John Keats)

  1. Explore how Keats vividly portrays here the never-ending pleasures that Nature has to offer.[25]

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Topic
Poetry, O-Level Literature in English (syllabus 2010). Structured question, 25 marks.
Source
O-Level Literature in English, Oct/Nov 2011 Paper 1 Variant 1, question 19.

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