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“The poetry of earth is never dead.”
Seasonal change does not extinguish natural life; the poem hears a continuing voice in both summer and winter.
Source note: On the Grasshopper and Cricket, opening line.
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“The poetry of earth is ceasing never.”
Keats closes the sonnet by insisting that nature’s music changes performers with the seasons but never truly stops.
Source note: On the Grasshopper and Cricket, final line; the cricket continues the earth’s poetry in winter.