Why does Tennyson structure the first stanza around descriptions of a knight?

A)to develop the idea that the grasshopper is strong, skilled, and worthy of
admiration
B)to show grasshoppers are universally admired, much as knights were in the
past
C)to prove that the grasshopper is the strongest and most noble of all insects
D)to suggest that the grasshopper prefers its quiet life to the structured life
of a knight