Why does Keats use capital letters in Grasshopper and Cricket?
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Explanation:
The meaning of Keats' poem "On the Grasshopper and Cricket" and the reason he particularly chooses the grasshopper and the cricket derives from the opening line ("The poetry of earth is never dead") and is mirrored in the ninth line ("The poetry of earth is ceasing never"). Composed in one octave (eight lines) and one sestet (six lines) and having the rhyme scheme abbaabba (octave) cdecde (sestet) without an ending couplet, this poem is structured as a Petrarchan sonnet of fourteen lines. In the Petrarchan sonnet, the ninth line turns the poem to a new subject matter in what is called the sonnet volta; all sonnets require a change of subject matter to usher in the resolution to the problem or idea introduced in the first eight lines.