Why was the sonnet "work without hope" written?

might need to ask questions people no or have read somthing about.

they both lost a woman they loved named lenore

they believed they interracted with a talking raven

they became orphaned at a young age.

main idea: it is important to prepare today for the needs of tomorrow.

the grasshopper was dying due to hunger, and this was because he didn't prepare for the winter.

the ants told the grasshopper, "if you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter."

the ants were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected in the summertime.