3. What picture of the two seasons does Keats draw in 'The Poetry of Earth'? Or, How does the poet present summer and winter in 'The Poetry of Earth’? Or, What picture of summer is presented in 'The Poetry of Earth'? How has it been carried onto the picture of winter? Or, Why does Keats feel that the poetry of earth is never dead?
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In 'The Poetry of Earth' Keats presents a beautiful picture of summer and presents the grasshopper as the poet of summer. The sun is so hot that the birds, feeling exhausted and languishing in the intolerable heat, become silent and take refuge in cool places under the shades of trees. Just then the grasshopper enters the scene to keep the song going. As he takes the lead, his voice is heard from one hedge to another. The blazing summer heat fails to deter his merriment. He goes on hailing nature while the air is filled with the smell of new-mown grasses in the meadows. When he feels tired, he rests under some pleasant weed. Again he sets out to sing with renewed vigour.Though everything seems to be at standstill in the scorching heat, the poet of summer keeps the poetry of earth alive all through the season with rejuvenated life-force.
In winter, the grasshopper's role is played by the cricket who continues celebrating the music of earth spreading warmth in frosty winter evenings.