On the Grasshopper and Cricket

Unlike The Ant and the Cricket page 211, which tells o at the is a nature poem. In it, the grasshopper and cricket do not oppe as characters in a story Rather, they act as symbol, suggesting something else. Read the poet and notice how the poetry of earth keeps on through summer and winter bis ending song. Who sings the song?

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 -- takes the lead 

In summer luxury -- he  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 stone 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.

WRITER :- JOHN KEATS