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Works of William Wordsworth: The Solitary Reaper

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wordsworth, William

Wordsworth, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Solitary Reaper

The poem is about the song that the poet has heard a "solitary Highland
Lass" sing. She overflows the vale with her music, "a melancholy strain" that
she sings while cutting and binding the grain. The second stanza describes the
poet's welcome of her song, describes it by way of clarifying that the
reaper's song is as sweet as the nightingale's, that her voice is more
thrilling than that of the Cuckoo-bird "Breaking the silence of the seas /
Among the fartherest Hebrides." In stanza three the subject of the reaper's
song is ...

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