Compare & contrast the two poems "on the grasshopper and cricket " by john keats and "disappointed " by paul laurence dunbar. On the Grasshopper and Cricket : 
 
The Poetry of earth is never dead:    
 When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,    
 And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run    
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;    
That is the Grasshopper's—he takes the lead      
 In summer luxury,—he has never done    
 With his delights; for when tired out with fun    
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.    
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

Disappointed : 
 
An old man planted and dug and tended,
Toiling in joy from dew to dew;
The sun was kind, and the rain befriended;
Fine grew his orchard and fair to view.
Then he said: "I will quiet my thrifty fears,
For here is fruit for my failing years."
But even then the storm-clouds gathered,
Swallowing up the azure sky;
The sweeping winds into white foam lathered
The placid breast of the bay, hard by;
Then the spirits that raged in the darkened air
Swept o'er his orchard and left it bare.
The old man stood in the rain, uncaring,
Viewing the place the storm had swept;
And then with a cry from his soul despairing,
He bowed him down to the earth and wept.
But a voice cried aloud from the driving rain;
"Arise, old man, and plant again!"