John Keats' "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
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🗓️ 6 July 2021
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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet prominent in the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems were in publication for only four years before he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25.[1] They were indifferently received by critics in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.[2] By the end of the century he had been placed in the canon of English literature and become the inspiration for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, with a strong influence on many writers; the Encyclopædia Britannica described one ode as "one of the final masterpieces". Jorge Luis Borges called his first encounter with Keats's work an experience that he felt all of his life.[3] It had a style "heavily loaded with sensualities", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through emphasis on natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analysed in English literature. Especially acclaimed are "Ode to a Nightingale", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".
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| 0:00.0 | That was a great dinner. |
| 0:01.0 | So great. |
| 0:01.8 | Wait, where'd you park the car? |
| 0:02.8 | Oh, the one I just sold a Carvana. |
| 0:04.5 | What? |
| 0:05.0 | When did you do that? |
| 0:06.0 | When you were still looking at the menu? |
| 0:07.3 | I went on Carvana.com and all I had to do was under the license plate or VIN, answer a few questions, and got a real offer in seconds. They picked up the car already? No, I parked around the corner. But they are picking it up tomorrow and paying me right on the spot. |
| 0:03.0 | Oh, no wonder you picked up the check. |
| 0:04.8 | Yeah, about that. |
| 0:05.8 | Thought we were going to havesys. |
| 0:07.1 | Sell your car to Carvana. |
| 0:08.7 | Visit Carvana. tomorrow and paying me right on the spot. Oh, no wonder you picked up the check. Yeah, about that. |
| 0:21.3 | I thought we were going havesys. Sell your car to Carvana. Visit Carvana.com or download the app to get a |
| 0:27.0 | real offer in seconds. Welcome back to the Daily Poem. I'm David Kern and today's Tuesday, July 6th, |
| 0:40.7 | 2021. Today's poem is by an English poet, |
| 0:47.3 | one of the most prominent, famous, and beloved of all English poets, John Keats. He lived from October of 1795 to February of 1821 and of course during his life was more or less unknown but then became quite influential |
| 0:57.1 | following his death. The poem that I'm going to read today is not one of the ones that is |
| 1:03.3 | most commonly anthologized by Keats. It's called On the Grasshopper and the Cricket and it goes like |
| 1:09.7 | this. |
| 1:14.9 | The poetry of earth is never dead. |
| 1:20.8 | When all the birds are faint with the hot sun and hide in cooling trees, |
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