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O-LevelLiterature in EnglishPoetryOct/Nov 2011Paper 1 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)

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About This O-Level Literature in English Question

This structured question appeared in the Cambridge O-Level Literature in English (2010) Oct/Nov 2011 examination, Paper 1 Variant 1. It tests the topic of Poetry and is worth 25 marks.

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