Western Poets & Urdu Removed From Class VIII Textbooks In Rajasthan

“The poetry of earth is ceasing never:

On a lone winter evening, when the frost

Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills

The Cricket’s song, in warmth increasing ever,

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,

The Grasshopper’s among some grassy hills.”

-Excerpt from ‘On the grasshopper and cricket’, John Keats

Words: Krupa Joseph