On the Grasshopper and the Criccket

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On the Grasshopper and the Cricket

John Keats

The poetry of earth is never dead.


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About the Poet

John Keats belongs to the second generation of Romantic

Poets .

His poetry is characterized by elaborate word choice and

sensuous imagery .

This is most notable in his Great odes which remain among

the finest poems in English Literature .

His major works includes Belle Dame Sans Merci , Odeto a Nightingale , To Autumn , The Fall of Hyperion -

etc .


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ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET

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 mead

That is the grasshoppers - he takes the leadIn summer luxury ,- he has never done

With his delights, for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed


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The poetry of earth is ceasing never :

On alone winter evening , when the frost

Has wrought a silence , from the store there shrills

The Crickets song , in warmth in creasing ever ,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost ,

The grasshoppers among some grassy hills .


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Thematic Content

The poem ON THE GRESSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET by

Keats shows this love for nature .

And also the beauty of nature in different fashions

Poet draws the picture of two seasons , the summer and the

winter . These seasons represents two different stages inhuman life ,youth and old age .


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TONE:

How does the poet create the atmosphere of

summer in the first 8 lines?

How does the poet create the atmosphere of

winter in the last 7 lines?

What is the overall tone of the poem?


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IMAGERY:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun

a voice will run from hedge to hedge

he takes the lead in summer luxury

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed

when the frost has wrought a silence

And seems to one in drowsiness half-lost


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IMAGERY:

What is meant by the line The poetry of earth is never

dead?

What is the effect of the repetition The poetry of

earth is ceasing never?

Why does Keats leave the word never until the end of

the line? (the grammatical structure is rather unusual)

Comment on the Aural (relating to sound) quality of the

final line; The grasshoppers among some grassy

hills.


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FORM

It is in the Petrarchan or Italian

The original Italian sonnet form divides the poem's 14

lines into two parts, an octave (first eight lines) and a

sestet (last six lines). The rhyme scheme for the

octave is typically abbaabba. There are a few

possibilities for the sestet, including cdecde, cdcdcd,and cdcdee.

Like Milton, who also used this form, Keats wrote

sonnets about many different subjects, not specifically,as early sonnet writers tended to, about love.


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FEELING:

The sound evokes memories of the grasshopper in the

last line and takes the reader to the beginning of the

poem again. In what ways does a consideration of thishelp to understand the full meaning of the first line,

'The poetry of earth is never dead?

Explain your own view of what Keats is trying to saythrough this poem in one or two sentences.

On the Grasshopper and the Criccket

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