Describe the half-sleeping man mentioned in the poem The Poetry of Earth".

Answer:  In winter evening when everywhere there exists silence due to the fall of frost, another musician of winter, the cricket creates a shrilling sound from somewhere near the stove and breaks that silence. There a man, sitting half-asleep beside the stove, hears the song of cricket. He is in semi-conscious state of mind. So he cannot think or hear properly. He mistakenly takes the note of cricket for the note of delighted grasshopper singing and flitting among the grassy hills. Through the presence of this half-sleeping man, the poet wants to establish two facts firmly—firstly, there always remains imperishable music in the earth and secondly, seasons come in a cyclic way.