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” is a lyric poem by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works. The poem was inspired by him and his sister Dorothy’s stay at the village of Strathyre in the parish of Balquhidder in Scotland in September 1803.

Detailed explanation-3: -"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-4: -“Tintern Abbey” is William Wordsworth’s most famous poems, published in 1798. It is a conversational poem that contains elements of an Ode and dramatic monologue.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer: The poet calls the reaper ‘Solitary’ because she is all alone in the field, reaping the crop and singing a sad song all to herself. Answer: He compares her song to the sweet notes of the nightingale and the cuckoo, both birds that sing in romantic surroundings.