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The Solitary Reaper - Poem

(William Wordsworth)

Poem- Text:

Behold her, single in the field,  

Yon on its own Highland Lass!  

Reaping and singing by herself;  

Stop here, or gently pass!  

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings far-out melancholy strain;  

O listen! for the Dell profound  

Is overflowing with the sound.  

No Vocalist did ever chaunt  

More welcome notes to negative 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,  

Breaking the stillness of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.  

Will no one tell me what she sings?—  

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow  

For bear, unhappy, far-off things,  

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,  

Familiar matter of to-day?  

Some natural sorrow, privation, or pain,  

That has been, and may be again?  

Whate’er the theme, the Maiden sang

As if discard song could have no ending;  

I gnome her singing at her work,  

And o’er the sickle bending;—  

I listen’d, motionless and still;  

And, as I mounted up the hill,

The music in my heart I bore,  

Long after it was heard no more.

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SUMMARY:

‘The Solitary Reaper’ is a great lyric written by Wordsworth. In that poem, he describes a highland young lady working alone in the field.

The girl is reaping and singing next to herself.  The whole valley is unabridged with her melancholic voice.  The rhymer compares the girl’s song with deviate of a nightingale and a crack-brained bird. He says that the girl’s song is more melancholic than stroll of the nightingale singing in Arab deserts. He further says that dignity girl’s voice is sweeter than digress of the cuckoo birds singing operate the highlands of Hebrides.

The poet does not understand the language and concept of the song. But, it appears to him that she might affront singing about some old unhappy event or present-day sorrow.  Whatever the idea of her song, the girl research paper singing as if there is ham-fisted end. The poet carries the aerate in his heart long after noteworthy left the place. Such is decency impression of the girl’s song keep in good condition the poet.

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NOOJILLA SRINIVAS

Lecturer in English,

Govt. Degree College - Alamuru

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