what picture of Summer is presented in the poetry of Earth
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like 'The cricket song', 'silence' and 'the frost' to represent a picture of the winter. ... Keats presents the voice of the Grasshopper as the music of summer.
The poet means that the songs and music of nature will never stop. It would go on without any break. Nature and poetry i.e. music are so linked that they will continuously evolve. Any change in season or the weather will not affect the continuity of the music of Nature. In summer, the songbirds, being tired with the hot sun, take shelter in cooling shade and stop singing. Still, then the songs of nature are heard. The tiny Grasshopper sings merrily as he moves about from hedge to hedge in the meadow. He luxuriates in the gaiety and abundance of the season. Similarly, in the midst of frosty, silent, bleak winter evening the poetry of the earth continues. The shrill cry of the Cricket breaks the silence of the winter evening. Thus, the poetry of earth never ceases.