Why does the poet say that the poetry of the earth is never dead, inthe poem “The grasshopper and the cricket”? This question is from New Pathways book of class 6
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By this poet means that the song and the music of the nature will never stop. It would go on without any break . Nature and poetry i.e. music are linked that they will continuously evolve . Any change in the season or weather will not affect the continuity of music of nature . In summer the songbirds , being tried with the hot sun take shelter in the 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 cricket breaks the silence of winter evening . Thus the poetry of earth never dies .