The grasshopper symbolizes summer while the cricket symbolizes the cold winter. The opening line of the poem suggests that ‘the poetry of earth is never dead.’ Every poet has been attracted towards nature and so has Keats been. Through his poem, ‘On the Grasshopper and the Cricket’ the poet asserts that no matter what the season is, whether it is the sweltering summer or the harsh cold winter, the music and the poetry of the nature is never dead.