2 quotations linked to On the Grasshopper and Cricket by or associated with John Keats, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Nature, poetry, seasonal continuity, sound, imagination and the poem’s image of the earth’s “poetry” continuing through summer and winter.
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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.
On the Grasshopper and Cricket, opening line.
“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.
On the Grasshopper and Cricket, final line; the cricket continues the earth’s poetry in winter.
