{"id":2088,"date":"2013-02-07T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2013-02-07T17:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:20:58","slug":"twists-on-john-keats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/02\/07\/twists-on-john-keats\/","title":{"rendered":"Twists on John Keats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Core presents a poem by Dan Beachy-Quick titled\u00a0<em>The Cricket and The Grasshopper<\/em>, named after the poem by Romantic poet John Keats, whose work is studied in the CC202 Core class. Here is the Dan B-Q poem:<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>The senseless leaf\u200a\u200a in the fevered hand<br \/>\nGrows hot, near blood-heat, but never grows<br \/>\nGreen. Weeks ago the dove\u2019s last cooing strain<br \/>\nSettled silent in the nest to brood slow<br \/>\nAbsence from song. The dropped leaf cools<br \/>\nOn the uncut grass, supple still, still green,<br \/>\nTwining still these fingers as they listless pull<br \/>\nThe tangle straight until the tangle tightens<br \/>\nAnd the hand is caught, another fallen leaf.<br \/>\nThe poetry of the earth never ceases<br \/>\nCeasing\u2009\u2014\u2009one blade of grass denies belief<br \/>\nUntil its mere thread bears the grasshopper\u2019s<br \/>\nWhole weight, and the black cricket sings unseen,<br \/>\nDesire living in a hole beneath the tangle\u2019s green.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the source of poem,\u00a0Poetry Foundation, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/VKdAsi\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/VKdAsi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To bring to attention the references that Dan B-Q makes, here is John Keat&#8217;s poem of the same name:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The poetry of earth is never dead:<br \/>\nWhen all the birds are faint with the hot sun,<br \/>\nAnd hide in cooling trees, a voice will run<br \/>\nFrom hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead:<br \/>\nThat is the grasshopper&#8217;s &#8212; he takes the lead<br \/>\nIn summer luxury, &#8212; he has never done<br \/>\nWith his delights, for when tired out with fun,<br \/>\nHe rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.<br \/>\nThe poetry of earth is ceasing never:<br \/>\nOn a lone winter evening, when the frost<br \/>\nHas wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills<br \/>\nThe Cricket&#8217;s song, in warmth increasing ever,<br \/>\nAnd seems to one in drowsiness half lost,<br \/>\nThe Grasshopper&#8217;s among some grassy hills.<\/p>\n<address> <\/address>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Core presents a poem by Dan Beachy-Quick titled\u00a0The Cricket and The Grasshopper, named after the poem by Romantic poet John Keats, whose work is studied in the CC202 Core class. Here is the Dan B-Q poem: The senseless leaf\u200a\u200a in the fevered hand Grows hot, near blood-heat, but never grows Green. Weeks ago the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,477,2534,4854,3856],"tags":[44815,44816,37417,521,37527,17392,44817,3830,37531,197,7650,44814],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2100,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}