ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -’The Solitary Reaper’ is a quintessentially Romantic poem in many respects: its ballad form, its focus on solitariness among nature (the girl is reaping in the fields of the wild highlands), and its emphasis on human emotion (’plaintive numbers’; ‘natural sorrow, loss, or pain’).

Detailed explanation-2: -"The Solitary Reaper” is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works.

Detailed explanation-3: -He takes the Romantic concept of stopping and appreciating nature, beauty and valuing the individual, the woman in the field, and validates it with elegant imagery and emphasises on its importance and allure.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”