John Keats

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John Keats

• By
• Ami Preston

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Johns poem

• ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND 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 runFrom 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 funHe 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 shrillsThe Cricket's song, in
  warmth increasing ever,   And seems to one in
  drowsiness half lost,     The Grasshopper's
  among some grassy hills.

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Notes on John Keats

• John Keats was born on October 31, 1795
• His mom and dad both died when Keats was a young
  boy.
• In 1816 Keats became a licensed apothecary, but
  he never practiced his profession, deciding
  instead to write poems.

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• Keats met Leigh Hunt, an influential editor of
  the Examiner, who published his sonnets "On First
  Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "O Solitude."
• He died there on February 23, 1821, at the age
  of twenty-five, and was buried in the Protestant
  cemetery.

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Johns Gallery

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He proved them wrong.

• When John Keats was born it was said that poets
  are born, not made. Poets at that time were
  either gentleman from the upper classes where
  incomes were unearned, or well educated with
  broad intellectual backgrounds.
• But Johns background was the lower classes. When
  he was a child no one even thought he had the
  talent to become a poet.
• John Keats proved them all wrong.

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John Keats

• By
• Ami Preston