Never-ending is the poem of the earth:
When birds are tired of the scorching sun
In the shade, on the grass, there was silence.
Another voice floated over the fence;
That's the song of Guoguo, longing.
Enjoy the summer feast,
Keep singing; When it needs to stop,
Have a rest on the green grass.
Ah, the poetry of the earth never stops;
On a lonely winter night, when the frost freezes,
It was quiet all around, and the fireside rang.
Crickets are singing, and the warmth in the room
It makes people sleepy, and we feel that
Like a slug chirping on a hillside.
(translated by Cha Liang Zheng)
It is the overall style of Keats' poems to express his love for nature, his feelings about life and his pursuit of artistic beauty with vivid images and expressive language. This song "Fruit and Cricket" is his early masterpiece of this pursuit. This poem expresses his feelings about the endless running of life and the beauty of nature through the description of rural scenery in summer and indoor scenery in winter, and is full of optimism from beginning to end.
Praise for life and self-awareness of life are the most essential connotations of poetic art. Keats is clearly aware of this, so he sings tirelessly like a slug and a cricket.
Seasonal change, things change, life and death cycle, sex. These are the most superficial phenomena in nature, and it is not surprising that they are commonplace in the most essential areas of life. The river of life flowing quietly is eternal. The charming songs of birds and the songs fluttering outside the fence have just rested in the hot summer sun, while the songs of cricket ring loudly with people's breathing in the pure snow atmosphere, beside the blazing fire on a heavy and lonely winter night. The charming calls of birds, the songs of slugs and the music of crickets are all brought into the specific emotional system of poetry as symbols of life phenomena, forming a symphony of earth life, which completes the process of the poet's life experience in this complete movement: the poetry of the earth never stops.
Poetry is essentially an art of language form. Once the content is completed under the constraint of form, it escapes without a trace, and the only thing that exists is the form of precipitation content. The content and form of this poem are finally precipitated into a perfect form in a high degree of harmony and unity, which is gentle, smooth and seamless. The experience process in winter and summer landscape is fixed in the structural form of circulation; "This is the poetry of the earth that never stops ... Ah, the poetry of the earth never stops ..." Life experience itself, as a complete process, also makes people forget their own existence and the alternation of seasons in a Buddhist environment, and pure life consciousness permeates the poet's whole body and mind. Cricket singing makes people feel like a drunk and sleepy slug chirping on the hillside. So that the whole time and space and concrete phenomena are integrated into the emotional process of the poet's inner experience, experience, perception and singing.
Poetry of the earth, an eternal song, a river of life, penetrated the poet's whole soul and left him with nothing. However, the poet's soul dances with this natural spirit and this symphony of life, and is integrated into the whole universe and life to be eternal.