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"On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

John Keats life Experiences

  • Lost his parents at eight years old

  • This helped him develop tragedy later in life in his poems

  • The warm and wondrous nature of Italy my have influenced his writing of the poem

Title's Meaning

Literal Events

Stanza One

Stanza Two

That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead

In summer luxury,—he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

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-mown mead;

The Grasshopper is enjoying the beautiful weather

and he is living life.

The Poetry is the beauty of the earth. The birds

are taking a rest from the hot sun and sit in the

trees as the "voice" which is the grasshopper is

heard from hedge to hedge over the freshly

mown yard. Even in the hot sun he is heard.

The title "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket" leads the Reader to believe the poem would be about nature and the differences between a cricket and a grasshopper.

Stanza Four

Stanza Three

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

As a man sleeps in his house that is warming up

he hears the Cricket's song. He is so comfortable

warm, and tired that he thinks it is the Grasshopper

during the summer.

It's no longer nice outside. The weather is cold

and frigid. It is silent outside, but on the inside

there is the high pitched whistle of the stove.

"On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"

Theme

The Speaker

  • The theme of the poem is realizing the beauty of nature.
  • In the summer, beauty is heard by a grasshopper's call.
  • In the winter, by the warming shrill of a 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-mown mead;

That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead

In summer luxury,—he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.

The speaker is someone who truly

sees the beauty in nature. They

appreciate its sounds, sites, and

weather. He speaks of summer as

a luxury and the "new-mown mead".

He takes great detail describing the

environment.

John Keats' Bio

Reevaluate the Title

  • After examining the poem, the reader's perspective shouldn't change much.
  • At first, you thought it was something about nature.
  • Your perspective should change just slightly because you see that the beauty of the earth never takes a break as you see with the insects sounds.
  • He was born October 31, 1795 and died February 23, 1821.
  • His dad passed away when Keats was only 8.
  • His mom quickly got remarried so that they could get back on their feet financially.
  • When that marriage ended she left the kids with her mother and came back but died shortly thereafter because of tuberculosis.
  • He didn't get many things published until after he had died in Rome where he died of tuberculosis.

Poetic Devices

Poem's Structure

  • Personification- "a voice will run"
  • Rhyme- sun, run, and done
  • Contrast- grasshopper is compared to summer and the cricket is compared to winter
  • Symbol- poetry is a replacement for beauty
  • Connotation- wrought as opposed to brought

about

  • Assonance-"He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed"
  • A 14 line sonnet
  • Rhyme scheme of abba-abba-cde-cde.
  • It is missing a couplet so it's not a Shakespeare Sonnet.
  • There are four stanzas
  • Half of the poem is about the grasshopper and the other half is about the cricket.
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