ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Solitary Reaper, poem by William Wordsworth, published in 1807 in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes. It is a pastoral snapshot of a young woman working alone in a field in the Highlands of Scotland, singing a plaintive song in Gaelic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Solitary Reaper, poem by William Wordsworth, published in 1807 in the collection Poems, in Two Volumes.

Detailed explanation-3: -"The Solitary Reaper” is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works.

Detailed explanation-4: -"The Solitary Reaper” is a poem about music: the song a Scottish girl sings as she cuts hay with a sickle. Though the poem’s narrator cannot understand what the girl is actually singing about, the girl’s song sticks with him, its melancholy beauty echoing in his head “long after” its sound has faded.

Detailed explanation-5: -“The Solitary Reaper” was written in 1805 and published in 1807 in Wordsworth’s collection Poems, in Two Volumes.