On the Grasshopper and Cricket Analysis

The poetry of earth is never dead:

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;

That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead

In summer luxury,--he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

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As have you have all failed to notice, this poem has strong ties to the undeniable destruction of the world. When it says that the poetry of the earth is never dead, they mean that nature is never dead and in some eariler posts you can see the deduction that God is nature. So now we see that God never dies. But people do. We are the grasshoppers, living a pleasant life for our due time until it must end. In the poem it is represented as winter, a metaphor for the apocalypse. It isn't a tragic sort of death as you see it says the grasshopper is resting peacefully. Then the cricket's role must also be identified which we can see come in after the apocalypse. The crickets are the beings of the new world, amidst the things God has planned after our time here. And the work of God will continue, the poerty of the earth is never dead!

| Posted on 2009-11-03 | by a guest

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the poet here expresses appreciation for life in contrast to nature. the grasshopper represents a person
at his or her youth. if you observe the grasshopper is an insect in which jumps the highest when compared to oter insects. his use of metaphorical diction sets a theme of nature in relation to human life

| Posted on 2009-11-01 | by a guest

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who comes up with shit like this??? any1 get it let me know... i want a full anylis on this like something usefull!!

| Posted on 2009-10-31 | by a guest

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para mi es re aburrido este poema pero lo tuve que hacer para un trabajo de ingles y esto es lo que creo.
Keats admires Nature, when he talks about the poetry of earth and that it is never dead, what he means to explain us is that Nature is an eternal survivor. Humans are Nature, so they are eternal, but not eternal in space and form, eternal in the minds of others. When you die you leave a part of you in every people that knew you. That essence is eternal, and that defines you as a person. Your body is death, but not your thoughts, your feelings or your essence, eternal in your friends, family or anyone that knew you.

| Posted on 2009-10-22 | by a guest

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para mi es re aburrido este poema pero lo tuve que hacer para un trabajo de ingles y esto es lo que creo.
Keats admires Nature, when he talks about the poetry of earth and that it is never dead, what he means to explain us is that Nature is an eternal survivor. Humans are Nature, so they are eternal, but not eternal in space and form, eternal in the minds of others. When you die you leave a part of you in every people that knew you. That essence is eternal, and that defines you as a person. Your body is death, but not your thoughts, your feelings or your essence, eternal in your friends, family or anyone that knew you.

| Posted on 2009-10-22 | by a guest

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One of my favourites. When I first read it, I was like, "What the eff? This is boring!" But as soon as I understood what it was really about, I began to really like it.
Keats(the poet) was a pantheist, which means that he believed that God and Nature are equivalent. That explains the word "dead" in the first line: "The poetry of earth is never dead." What he is trying to say is that since, according to pantheism, God and Nature are equivalent, then God must be present in everything natural, including humans; therefore, the human race will never die. Life on the whole is eternal and the death of an individual is brief.
That's also why the bit about the cricket(the winter bit) begins three-quarters down the poem: the first part, about the grasshopper(summer), represents youth and the line "The poetry of earth is ceasing never" represents a transition from youth to old age(autumn: transition from summer to winter).
Well, I hope I didn't confuse you too much.

| Posted on 2009-10-19 | by a guest

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This poetry is kinda boring but i know how much hard work keats put in it..so like yeah it takes brains to write sucha great peice a poetry. *thumbs up* keats :D
xx

| Posted on 2009-10-18 | by a guest

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i hate poetry.... only even on this site becuase of school project do schools purposly give me this stuff to put me to sleep????

| Posted on 2009-10-06 | by a guest

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Utter nonsense! You guys are a bunch of silly good-for-nothing retards. This website is for posting ANALYSES of the poem. not your own silly comments. DUMB IDIOTS.

| Posted on 2009-09-28 | by a guest

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"on the Grasshopper and the Cricket" is a marvelous poem. The way that poet (John Keats) shows two places where poetry is existing.He starts the poem with "The poetry of earth is never dead" then he uses the grasshopper to explain.Then on line 9 he writes "The poetry of earth is ceasing never" then he explains with the cricket. What i believe he is trying to say is as follows. Poetry exists everywhere and will never end as long as there is some happening even if insignificant, whether it be in nature or not. Even if we dont know it and if there is something happening, the there shall always be poetry and it shall never cease.
At least that what i think .

| Posted on 2009-08-31 | by a guest

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THIS IS ONE OF THE NICE POEM AS FAR AS ALL THE POEMS OF NATURE ARE CONCERN OF KEATS. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED POET OF THE ENGLISH x

| Posted on 2009-05-28 | by a guest

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THIS IS ONE OF THE NICE POEM AS FAR AS ALL THE POEMS OF NATURE ARE CONCERN OF KEATS. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED POET OF THE ENGLISH x

| Posted on 2009-05-28 | by a guest

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THIS IS ONE OF THE NICE POEM AS FAR AS ALL THE POEMS OF NATURE ARE CONCERN OF KEATS. HE IS ONE OF THE MOST DEDICATED POET OF THE ENGLISH x

| Posted on 2009-05-28 | by a guest

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umm you guys are funny and helped with the maine idea of this thanks

| Posted on 2009-04-28 | by a guest

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dude if u kids are in school try convincing your teachers not do this poem its utter rubbish ,keats is an overall good writer but this poem is mind boggling..urs truely v.anand

| Posted on 2009-04-12 | by a guest

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Dudes, this poem is amazing, i cant beleive you don't like it!! just think of the atmosphere he creates and how he appeals to your visual and aural senses!!
you can see that the beauty one finds in nature is strongly shown in this poem and it suggests a link between the cricket and the grasshopper and how life seems to be a cycle etc

| Posted on 2009-04-04 | by a guest

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he was a douche
get a life
why does everyone care about a poem that was written nearly 200 years ago
and its rubbish

| Posted on 2009-03-24 | by a guest

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i HONESTLY despise this man
we have to study and analysis and i am dying of boredom
i mean its so pointless
why make it so complicated
why not just say he likes nature?

| Posted on 2009-03-24 | by a guest

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Ya so for whoever doesn't get this poem, here is some shizzz that may help you.
The poem reflects the poet's belief that the beauty of nature never ends--in the summer, that beauty is heard in the grasshoppers call; in the winter the beauty of nature is shown by the shrill of the cricket.
Viewed metaphorically, Keats is suggesting that although we easily recognize the beauty of life in youth, there is also plenty of beauty in old age.
“This poem operates on one level, or within one sphere of discourse, neither puffing into grandiosity nor sliding into bathos” (William Walsh, Introduction to Keats, pg. 25)
“The body of the piece if composed of a double contrast, first between the birds faint with the hot sun and the thin voice running from hedge to hedge, and secondly between the winter evening and the frost-wrought silence and shrilling activity of the cricket’s song.” (William Walsh, Introduction to Keats, pg. 26)
“The contrast in each case is between relaxation and energy, between the drowsy warmth of the sun and the stove and the minute vivacity of the cricket’s and grasshopper’s voice.” (William Walsh, Introduction to Keats, pg. 26)

| Posted on 2009-03-04 | by a guest

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I am doin a project on this poem, i have 2 say its really confusing and hard to undersatnd, but i like the way he describes nature and the insects.

| Posted on 2008-11-26 | by a guest

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Are you crazy? The poem is great. It is a sonnet about 'the poetry of the earth' - beauty that one finds in nature. He juxtaposes the grasshopper's daytime noise with that of the cricket's nighttime noise, trying to show that 'the poetry of earth is ceasing never' - that beauty can be - and is - found in every living thing, big or small, day or night. It is written in Iambic pentameter, and was written by Keats in a competition to find out who could write the best sonnet, Keats or his friend Leigh Hunt.

| Posted on 2008-05-20 | by a guest

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i thought that this poem was horrible. it makes no since. if you understand it lemme kno. this is the worse piece of shit ever writtne.

| Posted on 2008-04-28 | by a guest