The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth Behold her‚ single in the field， Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself； Stop here or gently pass! Alone she cuts and binds the grain， And sings a melancholy strain； O Listen! for the Vale profound ls overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travellers in some shady haunt Among Arabian sands; A voice so thrilling ne’er was heard In spring-time from the cuckoo-bird，
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THE SOLITARY REAPER –William Wordsworth A general outline of the poem: Wordsworth‚ as a romantic nature poet gives his deep impression as he hears the song of the reaper in the highlands. The emphasis is on a single girl singing while she is reaping the corn-alone with nature. The poem highlights the emotional intensity of the girl’s song-it is sad‚ melancholic and overwhelming. The impression that the song makes on the poet is conveyed through the images of weary travelers lost in the desert
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Stylistic Analysis on the Solitary Reaper ’The Solitary Reaper" is one of William Wordsworth’s most famous post-Lyrical Ballads lyrics. It describes the poet’s delight in a young woman’s melancholy song in an unknown language. A highland girl is singing a ’melancholy song’ as she wings a sickle and reaps grain. The song is carried through the hills and valleys and seems to echo all around. To the poet the song seems sweeter even than the song of Nightingale. He does not want anyone to disturb
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The Solitary Reaper Reference to context “Behold her single in the field ……………is overflowing with the sound. Q1)Name the poet ? Whom is the poet talking about ? What effect does it have on the poet ?Describe the cost 2 lines of the verse ? The poet is William Wordsworth the poet describes the image of solitary reaper who is a highland lass or a girl in the field .The girl is reaping and singing all by herself .She cuts and binds the grain into bundles and while doing this she sings a melancholy
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Tiffinie Randall Dr. Kathrine Butler 372 British Literature II 02/12/15 Wordsworth Poetry Analysis On more than one occasion‚ William Wordsworth wrote poetry capturing beautifully simple moments in his homeland and the nearby areas. The Solitary Reaper is a fine testament to Wordsworth’s imaginative expression of his experiences in the exterior world. In its four eight-line stanzas the reader is provided an account of a scene set in Scotland featuring a maiden in a field whose song fills the air
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poem’The Solitary Reaper’ was written by William Wordsworth in the Romantic Era. Most of William Wordsworth poems are filled with his passionate belief in the beuty and power of nature. He desribed nature not as something beautiful‚ but as an expression of the ’spirit’ and the ’music of humanity’. The poem describes one of Wordsworth’s early experiences in nature‚ that is a source of both joy and tranquility‚ as the lonely girl reaped corn in the Scottish field. ’The Solitary Reaper’ is a description
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Beauty‚ Beauty‚ Beauty Shall I compare the poem to a painting? The poem is more beautiful and more temperate. The square paper does inhibit the roam of imaging. And a picture’s life is too short to a date. “The solitary reaper” is the poem. When you taste it‚ you can feel the beauty of picture; when you swallow it‚ you can touch the beauty of rhetoric; when you chew and digest it‚ you can embrace the beauty of solitariness. In the first stanza‚ William Wordsworth depicts a lonely girl reaping and
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Wordsworth’s Solitary Song: The Substance of " t r u e a r t " in " T h e Solitary R e a p e r . " GEOFFREY J . FINCH I T has become a truism in recent years that the Romantic poets were preoccupied with the fundamentals of their own poetic talents. Clearly‚ a view of poetry which places so much emphasis on the poet not as an interpreter‚ nor as a mirror‚ but as a creator of reality‚ must impose a severe self-consciousness on the individual artist‚ and it is not surprising that running through
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While passing through a mountain pass in the highlands‚Wordsworth saw a young girl in a field.She was working all alone.She was cutting and binding the crops into sheaves .She was singing a sad song.Her song was echoing in the whole valley and could be heard even beyond it.The poet did not disturb the girl lest she could cease singing. The song of the girl was really very sweet and charming.The poet thought that her song was sweeter than the song of the nightingale.Though the notes of the nightingale
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The Solitary Reaper: A Response William Wordsworth is considered by many to be one of the most efficient‚ and studied poets of English Literature. With his many talents‚ and aid by his sister‚ Dorothy Wordsworth‚ he had produced many stories and songs during his period. Wordsworth has been compared to the finest author in English Literature‚ William Shakespeare. Wordsworth’s talent is viewed in his many poems‚ including “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”‚ “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” and “The
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