Question

on the grasshopper and cricket by john keats from the poetical works of john keats, ed. by w t arnold, published by kegan paul, trench & company, 1884 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. 8 read this line from “on the grasshopper and cricket” when all the birds are faint with the hot sun, the speaker means that the birds are a obscured b weak c afraid d fallen

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the meaning of "faint" in the line "When all the birds are faint with the hot sun". "Faint" here implies the birds are weak due to the heat. Option A (ill) is too extreme, C (afraid) doesn't fit the context of heat affecting them, and D (fallen) is incorrect. So the correct option is B as "weak" matches the meaning of "faint" in this context.

Answer:

B. weak