Poem: The Grasshopper and Cricket by John Keats
Questions:-
1. The poetry of earth is ceases never as_______________________
2. On a lone winter evening one can observe that ____________________
3. Explain the poet’s state on a winter evening - _________________
PLEASE ANSWER PLEASE!!
Answers
Answer:
1) to highlight the beauty of nature
2) the sound of cricket
3)“On the grasshopper and the Cricket” by John Keats is a fine piece of sonnet written in December 1816. The poem was inspired by the beauty of nature, the most common theme among the Romantic poets. To be precise, the poet here celebrates the ‘poetry of earth’ – the music of nature which is omnipresent. The two opening lines of the octave and the sestet “The poetry of earth is never dead” and “The poetry of earth is ceasing never” say it all.
Keats has introduced two little creatures – the grasshopper and the cricket, as the title of the poem suggests – to represent the vitality and joyous mood of nature even in the scorching hot of summer and in bleak and bitter cold of winter. The sonnet is all about how the grasshopper and the cricket carry on with the endless song of the earth.
αnswer :-
1. The poetry of the Earth ceases never as we can hear cricket’s song in winters.
2. On a lone winter evening one can observe that there’s complete silence.
~This is mentioned in the second paragraph of the poem :
''The poetry of earth is ceasing never:
On a lone winter evening when the frost
Has wrought a silence, from the stone there shrills
The cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever''
→ Here, in winters also the birds are silent but we can listen the cricket singing which appears to increase warmth every moment.
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3. Explain the poet’s state on a winter evening
→ On a winter evening the poet was in drowsiness because of the bad weather of a frosty winter night. Due to his drowsiness he thinks that the song is not of cricket but of the grasshopper from some grassy hills.