Identify the voices of poetry in the poem 'The Poetry of Earth'. How does Keats establish continuity through these voices?

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Identify the voices of poetry in the poem 'The Poetry of Earth'. How does Keats establish continuity through these voices?

In Keats' 'The Poetry of Earth', the voices of poetry manifest themselves through the song of the grasshopper and the cricket.

The fact that both the insects remain invisible to the human eye, lens intensity to their song which becomes a voice without form. There is a sense of a distinctive presence that pervades the whole poem. Continuity has been established by connecting the chirping of the grasshopper in the meadows during summer with the similar chirping of the cricket by the fireside in winter. Thus the song of nature is never silent. When the birds are tired, the grasshopper takes lead in enjoyment and when winter frost covers the earth and the gloomy atmosphere silences other voices of the countryside, the cricket's shrill voice fills the environment with increasing intensity. Thus, the song of nature continues forever.

Why does the poet choose the sonnet form for this poem 'The Poetry of Earth'? Give reasons.

Keats chose the Petrarchan or Italian sonnet form in 'The Poetry of Earth'. This sonnet form consists of an octave (the first eight lines) and a sestet (the last six lines). The rhyme scheme is 'abba', 'abba', 'cde', 'cde'. This form suited his purpose the best because in this form the octave presents the theme of the poem and develops it while the sestet concludes the theme or the idea presented in the octave. In this poem we see, the very first line presents the theme- 'The poetry of earth is never dead'. Then the theme is elaborated upon where we find the grasshopper taking up the place of the silent birds. The sestet draws a conclusion where one in one's drowsiness caused by the frost in winter imagines the voice of the cricket as the song of the grasshopper and it becomes the eternal song of nature. So, the reason behind choosing the sonnet form is justifiable.

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