WELCOME

An introduction to a poemWhat are the different experiences you get from

nature?

Which are the four seasons?

Have you ever thought of the poetry of nature?

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

Poetry of the nature

Identify one sound that can be associated to winter season?

Can you identify the creature?

ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND

THE CRICKET

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”

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.

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?

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

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

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

THANK YOU

References:

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

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

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