Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Please help me identify imagery(metaphor, personification, etc) in the poem "On The Grasshopper and The Cricket" by John Keats and their effects.

First, the very first line is an example of
personification. "The poetry of earth is never dead." Poetry cannot be dead in the sense
that humans die.


Also, in line seven, the poet speaks of
the grasshopper having delight and fun. This is another example of
personification.


Another example of personification would
be in line ten and eleven in reference to the frost creating a
silence.


The imagery is clear in line two. The poet
indicates that the birds are feeling faint from the hot sun. The reader can visualize
the birds about to faint from the hot sun.


The cricket's
song in line twelve would be imagery. The reader can hear the sweet sound the cricket
makes.


The poem is added below for easy
reference:


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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.


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