THE SOLITARY REAPER
by: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Poet: William Wordsworth is the greatest poet of his age. He is known as poet of nature for he has interpreted nature in almost all his poems. He is very famous for his lyrics, sonnets, odes and short decriptive poems.
THEME: In this poem the poet is much impressed by the song of a mountain girl. He can not catch the theme of the song, but it fills him with ecstasy. The song becomes immortal for him.
STYLE: The stanza pattern that is used in the poem is on the balled stanza pattern but has a magnificient sweep of rhythm and strong lyrical feeling. Each stanza is made up of eight lines and there are eight syllables. The second part of every stanza has a different rhythm pattern.
LANGUAGE: The language of the peom is very simple, even an ordinay reader can understand it well. He has selected the words of common used but they are full of emotions and imagination.
CONCLUSION: The solitary reaper has been presented hereas a part of nature. Like a flower, a tree or a bird. The sad song she is singing thhrills the poet and awaken in his mind romantic associations. He is carried away in the imagination, on the one hand to the Arabian deserts, where is some oasis, the song of the nightingle cheers the hearts of the travellers, taking rest after a hand journey and on the other hand to the Hebrides island where the calm and quiet atmosphere is sweetly broken by the song of Cuckoo. Thus through the great power of imagination, Wordsworth has made an ordinary girl extraorinary. As Wordworth is a poet of nature so, in the poem he is at his best.
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