1. John Keats By: Ami Preston

2. John’s 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. John’s Gallery

6. 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 John’s 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.

7. John Keats By : Ami Preston