Summary on the grasshopper and the cricket giving the introduction
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Key points
1. The earth is full of poetry.
2. On summer season all the birds hide themselves in the cooling shades.
3. But the grasshopper sings in the hot summer season.
4. He enjoys the hot summer season.
5. The poetry of earth never stops.
6. The shrill sound is heard in the very cold winter season.
7. This is the sound of cricket.
8. Even the drowsy person when hears the sound feels it as the grasshopper’s sound.
Summary
It is a symbolic poem in which the grasshopper is a symbol of hot summer and the cricket is of very cold winter.
Every poet has been attracted towards the beauty of nature. John Keats is no exception to this and finds nature beautiful in all seasons not excluding the hot summer and cold winter.
He says that the earth is always singing. When the birds stop singing in the hot summer finding cool place, we find the grasshopper singing and flying from hedge. He sings tirelessly and when tired, rests beneath some weed.
When the birds are silent in very cold the earth never stops and expresses its pleasure through different beings like the cricket. It sings the beautiful songs from the stones. It seems to be increasing in warmth every moment and half-asleep human being feels it to be a grasshopper’s song coming from grassy hills.
Answer:
On The Grasshopper And The Cricket is a poem written by John Keats. The poet was inspired by the beauty of nature.The poet says that the poetry of earth is never dead. It is a symbolic poem in which grasshopper is a symbol of Summer and cricket as a symbol of winter.It says that the Earth is always singing. When the birds stop singing in the hot summer by taking shelter under cool trees, the grasshopper and flies from head to head at over the freshly cut grasses. He sing tirelessly and when tired take rest beneath weeds and when the birds are silent in the winter the song of earth never ends.In winter a cricket replaces the grasshopper its from the stones have a sleep human being fells it to be a grasshoppers song coming from the grass