This poem by John Keats compares the grasshopper and cricket. In the hot summer, the grasshopper sings by flying from hedge to hedge and resting under weeds when tired of singing. While other animals hide from the heat, only the grasshopper provides song. In the winter, when everything seems quiet, the cricket's shrill cry can be heard and resembles the grasshopper's whir to those who are drowsing. The earth is always full of poetry, provided by creatures like the grasshopper and cricket throughout the seasons.

1. POEM
Poem: On the Grasshopper
and Cricket
Poet: John Keats
Class: VIII [English]

2. The earth is full of poetry.
In a hot summer, birds hide
themselves.

3. Only the grasshopper sings in a hot
summer season.

4. He flies from hedge to hedge

5. When tired with fun of singing in
hot summer, he rests beneath
some pleasant weed.

6. The poetry of earth never stops.

7. In the frosty winter evening looks,
a shrill sound of cricket is heard.

8. To a drowsing person, the cricket’s
shrill cry appears to be a
grasshopper’s whir.