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    Following literary devices have been used in the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket by John Keats: Personification: When the poet gives human characteristics to animals, plants or other non-living things. In the poem, the poet the Grasshopper using the word "he". One more example is "the frostRead more

    Following literary devices have been used in the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket by John Keats:

    1. Personification: When the poet gives human characteristics to animals, plants or other non-living things. In the poem, the poet the Grasshopper using the word “he”. One more example is “the frost has wrought a silence” Frost is symbolised as something living.
    2. Metaphor: It is the direct comparison of two or more things. In the poem, the poet compares earth’s poetry with the singing of grasshopper and also compares the singing of grasshopper with that of cricket.
    3. Oxymoron: It is a figure of speech in which two contradictory terms are combined. e.g. “pleasant weed”. Weed is an unnecessary thing. However the poet calls in pleasant because it is a part of nature.
    4. Enjambment: It is the continuation of a sentence without a pause, beyond the end of a line, couplet or a stanza. e.g. “when the frost has wrought a silence”, “from the stove there shrills the cricket’s song” etc.
    5. Alliteration: It is the repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words. e.g. “a voice will run”, “from hedge to hedge”,  “…winter evening, when…”.
    6. Inversion: it is the inverting of the normal word order in a sentence or phrase. e.g. “Poetry of earth is ceasing never“, “And seems to one is drowsiness half lost“.

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    The theme of the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket is Persistence, Patience and Merry-making nature of our earth. It is one of the themes of Romantic Poetry. In other words, this theme is found in most of the Romantic Poems. In this poem, the poet explains how nature keeps itself alive and jovRead more

    The theme of the poem On the Grasshopper and the Cricket is Persistence, Patience and Merry-making nature of our earth. It is one of the themes of Romantic Poetry. In other words, this theme is found in most of the Romantic Poems.

    In this poem, the poet explains how nature keeps itself alive and jovial even in the harsh and unbearable climates. According to him, the grasshopper keeps singing and hopping here and there in the burning summer when all the birds stop chirping and hide themselves in the trees to keep themselves cool.

    Similarly, during the winters, when snow forces everybody to remain calm and silent, the cricket sings and tells that nature is always alive.

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    The poem "On The Grasshopper and the Cricket" means that nature is alive, merry-making and persistent. It never stops from singing. During the spring season, birds sing, when summer appears, grasshopper takes the lead and when winter comes, cricket takes the position. So one part or the other of theRead more

    The poem “On The Grasshopper and the Cricket” means that nature is alive, merry-making and persistent. It never stops from singing. During the spring season, birds sing, when summer appears, grasshopper takes the lead and when winter comes, cricket takes the position. So one part or the other of the nature keeps her alive.

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    A thing of beauty is a joy forever, Its loveliness increases , it will never Pass into nothingness;but still will keep A bower quite for us , and health And quite breathing  

    A thing of beauty is a joy forever,

    Its loveliness increases , it will never

    Pass into nothingness;but still will keep

    A bower quite for us , and health

    And quite breathing

     

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    The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad . It is about love that is said to be like a flower. The poem says joy is quite short and suffering is forever. It also reflects how beauty can deceive a person and make him fail or suffer. Unlike Happy Insensibility, the poet here does not celebrate theRead more

    The poem La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a ballad . It is about love that is said to be like a flower. The poem says joy is quite short and suffering is forever. It also reflects how beauty can deceive a person and make him fail or suffer. Unlike Happy Insensibility, the poet here does not celebrate the beauty but rather considers it as something which causes grief and suffering.

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    In the poem "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" or "The Lady Without Mercy", the knight tells the poet that the lady took him to her "Elfin Grot" i.e. a small fairy cave. There she lays herself in the arms of the knight and weeps a lot and kept mourning. The knight is full of love for her and kisses her eyesRead more

    In the poem “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” or “The Lady Without Mercy”, the knight tells the poet that the lady took him to her “Elfin Grot” i.e. a small fairy cave. There she lays herself in the arms of the knight and weeps a lot and kept mourning.

    The knight is full of love for her and kisses her eyes. And afterwards he goes to sleep and dreams of kings and princes who warn him that the lady is without mercy. After waking up, he finds that she is not there and he is left alone to suffer the loneliness and misery.

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