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Summary of On The Grasshopper And The Cricket by John Keats

Hello Everyone and Welcome to Beaming Notes. In this video, we are going to take a look at the Line by Line Poem Summary of On the Grasshopper And The Cricket by John Keats. Voice-Over and Narration : Arka Chakraborty SUMMARY: ------------------- OCTAVE: The poem is not separated into stanzas. It is separated into an octave and a sestet. The first part of the poem, the octave, celebrates the earth in all its forms. It says that the poetry of earth is never dead. The earth provided poetry in the form of the songs of the birds or the calls of the beasts. However, when the summer sun is too hot and strong, the birds find it difficult to keep up their routine. They find shelter from the scorching heat in trees that provide ample shade and hence, are ‘cooling’. But the grasshopper does not cease its song. Its voice runs throughout the freshly mown meadows untiringly. Even in the sultry summer days, he never stops his chants. The grasshopper does not feel ‘faint’ under the sun. For him, even the summer is a time for joy. Hence, when he has had his fill of fun, he finds comfort under some weeds or long grass stalks. SESTET: The sestet begins with the earlier declaration that the poetry of earth is forever, it is never ending. During the cold, harsh winters, when one is numbed by the cold, only one voice is heard that calls out to one in drowsy evenings by the fire (stove) and that is the cricket. The poet tells us that during the winters, instead of growing quiet of the cold, the cricket finds a corner in some kitchen near a stove and belts out its song. The warmth coming from the stove mingles with the warm tones of the cricket who tries to keep one entertained. This song perhaps reminds one who’s half asleep that the grasshopper is probably out on some grassy hill, singing its heart out. CENTRAL IDEA: ------------------------- The central idea of the poem is tenacity of the grasshopper and the cricket to provide us entertainment and joy to us through their respective songs. Their songs are the poetry of earth, poetry that never ceases to be, even during extreme circumstances. THEME: ------------- Nature: Nature is the major theme in this sonnet. Nature is seen as a revered figure throughout this poem. It is not difficult to trace the influence the natural world has on Keats as one reads this poem. The first line begins with a declaration that the poetry of earth is never dead. This declaration is followed by Keats trying to explain why not. In the course of fourteen lines, Keats alludes to birds, the sun, trees, hedges, meadows, frost and grassy hills. All of the aforementioned are popular motifs of a nature poem. Keats doesn’t end here, he alludes to some of these motifs along with their inherent qualities or their purposes, for example, he alludes to the heat of the sun, the cool shade provided by the trees or the pleasantness of a certain area of grass or weed. Last but not the least, Keats uses the grasshopper and the cricket as the symbols of summer and winter, respectively. Seasons: Summer and Winter are seen as two parallel peers who sustain the natural world. Keats posits them side by side as two parameters against which all the cycles of the natural world has to be tested. After this putting nature through the test, Keats concurs that grasshopper and the cricket are the ones that can overcome all strife, including the extreme temperatures. Hope: Both the grasshopper and the cricket are symbols of hope. They continue in their daily rituals even when other creatures cannot. They provide everyone with the hope that no matter how hard the situation is, there is always a way to overcome them. The grasshopper takes rest in some ‘pleasant weed’ to freshen itself so that it can provide the poetry of earth for the entire natural world to listen. The cricket finds its voice even in the midst of frost when the whole of creation finds itself silenced. Thus, hope is what constitutes the poetry of the earth. Want to Learn More about this Poem? Then Go To www.beamingnotes.com, or simply click on the Links below! Please visit MyCBSEMate (hyperlinked) for poem/prose summaries, analysis, and solved questions from Class 6 to Class 12. https://beamingnotes.com/2014/10/12/s... Download Beamingnotes App by clicking on the link below: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...