On The Grasshopper and The Cricket
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-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.
John Keats
English poet John Keats (1795-1821) belongs to the second generation of Romantic poets. His poetry is characterised by elaborate word choice and sensuous imagery. This is most notable in his Great Odes which remain among the finest poems in English Literature.
