Powerpoint presentation on on the grasshopper and the cricket

An introduction to the poem.

1. WELCOME

2. An introduction to a poem What are the different experiences you get from nature?

3. Which are the four seasons ?

4. Have you ever thought of the poetry of nature?

5. Can you identify any sound that can be associated to summer season?

6. Poetry of the nature

7. Identify one sound that can be associated to winter season?

8. Can you identify the creature?

9. ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE CRICKET

10. John Keats Born on October 31, 1795 Romantic poet Poetry is famous for elaborate word choice and imagery Love for nature is a key feature in his writings “Ode on a Grecian Urn”, “Ode to a Nightingale”

11. On the Grasshopper and Cricket On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 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.

12. Sonnet: A 14 line poem that rhymes in a particular pattern and divides the lines to two sections. Who take the lead in summer? Who hide in cooling trees? Who breaks the silence of winter? Where can we see the grasshopper in summer?

13. Structure of the poem Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave and sestet Octave talks about summer Sestet describes winter Poem expresses the love, joy and beauty of nature

14. Hedge : a fence or boundary formed by closely growing bushes or shrubs Mown: To cut grass using a machine or an implement with a blade

15. Read the poem: Identify the rhyming words in the poem. sun-run, dead-mead, frost-lost Find out the examples for personification. He rests at ease, frost has wrought Find out the visual images from the poem. summer luxury, personification of frost

16. THANK YOU

17. References: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S42Nd1APmzs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCUCnxVYmrI

18. Prepared by: Dhanya Zacharias B.Ed English St.Joseph’s Training College, Mannanam , Kerala