The author of "The Grasshopper and the Cricket" is the American romantic poet Keats.
"The Grasshopper and the Cricket" is an ode to nature. Through the description of the "music of the grasshopper" in midsummer and the "song of the cricket" in winter, it praises the beauty of nature like poetry, which is always singing and full of vitality.
This poem is cleverly conceived, short, delicate and very grand. The whole poem is divided into two corresponding parts, starting with "The poetry of the earth never dies" and "The poetry of the earth never stops" to illustrate the theme; it also describes the "music of the grasshopper" and "the music of the grasshopper" in midsummer. "The song of crickets" in winter, and cleverly connect the two through association, vividly expressing the theme of "the poetry of the earth never dies". This poem only outlines two small scenes of summer and winter, but does not describe the scenes of spring and autumn; it only describes the singing of two insects, the grasshopper and the cricket, but does not write about the other hundreds of birds on the earth. The song of insects. But what it reveals is the law of nature’s continuous singing throughout the year, praising the eternal beauty of nature’s cycle and endless life. The whole poem eulogizes the infinite beauty and infinite vitality of nature. It does not use much ink but can win more with less, giving people a broad space for imagination. The perspective is novel and unique, and the conception is quite original.
This poem pays attention to the creation of atmosphere, contrasting movement and stillness, with beautiful artistic conception and rich sentiment. "When all the birds are fainted by the scorching sun, / Hidden in the cool woods", "On the hedges around the newly cut grass", "The pleasant grass", these descriptions of the scenery show the vibrant scene of midsummer, setting off the It describes the beauty of the "grasshopper's music" in the summer day; "It strives to be the first / Intoxicated with the luxury of midsummer, it never feels / its own joy disappears, once it is tired from singing, / it sits comfortably in the middle of the pleasant grass." , exaggerating the rich emotional color of joy in "The Music of the Grasshopper". "On a lonely winter night, when the frost condenses / a piece of tranquility", "in the gradually rising heating, / in the drowsy", expresses the lonely and quiet scene of the cold winter and the warm atmosphere in people's homes, and the atmosphere in front It is both contrasting and very harmonious, reflecting the beautiful sound of "Cricket's Song" on a winter night. Finally, it ends with "People feel that the sound/is like the chirping of grasshoppers on that grassy mountain". The two pictures before and after are superimposed together, so that the "song of crickets" in winter echoes the "music of grasshoppers" in midsummer, intertwined into one The "poetry of the earth" that "never dies" and "never stops" comes and goes. The artistic conception of this poem is both subtle and beautiful, as well as vast and profound, making people deeply feel the poet's infinite love and heartfelt praise for nature.