Summary: This is a symbolic poem in which the grasshopper represents the scorching summer and the cricket represents the very cold winter. Nature, according to John Keats, is lovely in all seasons, including the scorching summer and freezing winter. He claims that the planet is always singing. Grasshoppers are associated with prosperity because they eat weeds before they have a chance to grow. When farmers see grasshoppers eating their weeds, they know that good crops are coming. In Japan, grasshoppers are believed to bring good luck. If someone sees a group of them, he or she should keep the sight out of fear that it will bring bad luck. However, if one is bitten by a poisonous one, this would mean that there will be trouble with an important person in one's life. In China, people try to kill grasshoppers because they believe that they are pests who eat crops. But if you do so, you might be killing someone's future spouse or child. For this reason, most people don't go around trying to kill them. In Africa, if someone sees a big group of grasshoppers, it means that his or her enemy will be defeated. So if you want to know how your battle against evil things is going, look at the state of nature around you.