Page 3 - Lession Note

Like other poets Keats was also much moved by the nature. He here presents whatever the
season is, the music and poetry never ends. Whether it is hot summer or it is cold winter, Poetry
and music of earth never ends. Here in the poem, the grasshopper symbolises the summer
season and the cricket symbolises the winter.
STRUCTURE OF THE POEM

The whole poem is an example of Petrarchan sonnet. It consists of 14
lines. The full poem is Iambic Pentameter. The rhyme scheme of the poem is
abba abba (octave) and cde cde (sestet). The first 8 lines are called Octave and
rest six lines are called sestet. The ninth no line is called Volta.

POETIC DEVICES USED IN THE POEM

1) Poetry – Symbolised as sounds and activities of earth.
2) Enjambment – A voice will run....
..........from hedge to hedge.
3) Oxymoron – pleasant weed.
4) Inversion – ‘Poetry of earth is ceasing never”
5) Enjambment - ................when the frost
.....................has wrought a silence.
6) Inversion – “ And seems to one is drowsiness half lost”

NEW WORDS
Faint : She got fainted due to prolong illness.

Hide : The thief hid himself behind the curtain.

Delights : He gets delighted in playing cricket.

Shrill : The children shrilled by seeing snake in the garden.

Drowsiness : Some students feel drowsy after having their breakfast.
KEY POINTS
1. The earth is full of poetry.

2. On summer season all the birds hide themselves in the cooling shades.

3. But the grasshopper sings in the hot summer season.

4. He enjoys the hot summer season.

5. The poetry of earth never stops.

6. The shrill sound is heard in the very cold winter season.

7. This is the sound of cricket.