The solitary reaper

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Wordsworth is depicting a girl at the fields reaping and singing alone, the sound of the girl is magnificient  and it makes him to tell people recognise and ‘listen!’ her ,  it is underpinned that the poet  does not even understand the content of the song, yet he is enchanted by it, and lastly it is indicated that this is a memory and the poet feds up with this memory to write the poem, one of the distinctive features of Wordsworth’s verse.

The poem is structured in four stanzas. The first imagines the poet listening ‘the Solitary reaper’ who is ‘Highland lass’ and tells people to notice her and not to disturb her,  he commands them to listen her. The ryhme on  ‘profound’ and  ‘ sound’  are connecting  the words  both in the sound and the meaning ; the comparision of the beauty of the sound of the girl is the subject of the next stanza.  The  poet is admiring the girl’s singing even without understanding it  and trying to guess the content of it in the third stanza, however  the final stanza is infers that the song is charming and stays in the memory.

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The poem is depicted at the nature and with the first stanza the poet depicts a ‘field’ and  a ’ Lass’ who is ‘cuts and binds the grain’, with this simple words a scene become visible in the mind of the reader and with the command for to listen the ‘melancholy’ song of the girl,  the sound sense is active of the reader and its attached with the poem.  The  comparasion of her voice with Nightingale  which is from ‘Arabian sands’ and cuckoo-bird from ‘farthest Hebrides’ suggests that around the song ‘the solitary reaper’ sings is universal like a birds ...

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