Hello friends today we are discuss this question, the question is -“… he takes the lead / in summer luxury,” – he has never Gone/with his delights;” -Who is ‘he’? When does ‘he’ take the lead? Explain the phrase ‘he takes the lead’.
Here ‘he’ refers to the Grasshopper. He takes the lead in summer.
In summer, the unbearable heat makes the birds, the choir of nature, so exhausted that they become silent and take rest in the cool shades of the trees. Just then when the poetry of earth seems to come to a standstill, the Grasshopper takes the charge. The Grasshopper joyfully moves from one hedge to another, lacing the lead in ‘summer luxury’. He becomes the poet of summer who, when tired rests beneath weed for some moments and again starts singing happily with renewed energy, delight and vigor.