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On The Grasshopper And The Cricket

John Keats

PROFILE

John KeatsBorn : 1795Belongs to the secondgeneration of Romantic PoetsMajor WorksEndymion (1818) "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819) "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819) "On Autumn" (1820) 

Died : 1821

In this poem, On the Grasshopper and The cricket ,poet Keats presents his love of beauty and of nature in

different fashion.There are two little almost invisible singers who keep

the scene alive

Vocabulary• cease - come to an end• delight - great pleasure• faint - become weak• hide - conceal• mead - a tract of grassland• mow - to cut grass with a scythe• weed - useless plant of small

growth

Figure of speech

• Rhyming words:-Rhyming words are words ending with similar sound.

Dead-meadRun-done

Lead-weedNever-everFrost-lost

Shrills-hills