An introduction to the poem.

1. WELCOME

3. An introduction to a poem
What are the different experiences you get from nature?

4. Which are the four
seasons?

5. Have you ever
thought of the
poetry of nature?

6. Can you identify any sound that
can be associated to summer
season?

7. Poetry of the nature

8. Identify one sound that can be associated
to winter season?

9. Can you identify the creature?

10. ON THE
GRASSHOPPER AND
THE CRICKET

11. John Keats
•Born on October 31, 1795
•Romantic poet
• Poetry is famous for elaborate word
choice and imagery
• Love for nature is a key feature in his
writings
• “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to a
Nightingale”

13. On the Grasshopper and Cricket
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
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.

14. Sonnet: A 14 line poem that rhymes in a
particular pattern and divides the lines to
two sections.
Who take the lead in summer?
Who hide in cooling trees?
Who breaks the silence of winter?
Where can we see the grasshopper in
summer?

15. Structure of the poem
 Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave and
sestet
 Octave talks about summer
 Sestet describes winter
 Poem expresses the love, joy and beauty of
nature

16. Hedge: a fence or boundary
formed by closely growing
bushes or shrubs
Mown: To cut grass using a
machine or an implement with a
blade

17. Read the poem:
Identify the rhyming words in the poem.
sun-run, dead-mead, frost-lost
Find out the examples for personification.
He rests at ease, frost has wrought
Find out the visual images from the poem.
summer luxury, personification of frost

18. THANK YOU

19. References:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S42Nd1APmzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCUCnxVYmrI

20. Prepared by: Dhanya Zacharias
B.Ed English
St.Joseph’s Training
College, Mannanam, Kerala