Question

Which element of the romantic movement is present in this excerpt from the "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth?

Answer 1

You did not provide an excerpt, however, the poem itself has numerous elements of the romantic movement such as writing about nature, melancholy, the highly subjective mood of the writer, and other things.

Answer 2

"No Nightingale did ever chaunt1

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands:

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides2.

Will no one tell me what she sings?--

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow

For old, unhappy, far-off things,

And battles long ago:

Or is it some more humble lay,

Familiar matter of to-day?

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain,

That has been, and may be again? "

-By William Wordsworth

1 sing

2 a large archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, composed of the oldest rocks in the British Isles