Nineteenth-century romantic poets such as William Wordsworth developed lyric poetry into a form that used first-person accounts
of the thoughts and feelings of a specific moment. What thoughts or feelings do the first two stanzas of Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" convey? Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
No Nightingale did ever chaunt
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 Hebrides.
A.
the speaker's sadness at the reaper’s song
B.
the speaker's experiences traveling and seeing the world
C.
the speaker's feelings about agriculture and women working diligently
D.
the speaker’s admiration for and gratitude to the reaper
The thoughts of the first two stanzas of Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth, conveys the D. The speaker's admiration for and gratitude of the Reaper.
Explanation:
Wordsworth in this poem, writes about real music seen in a beloved rustic setting. Wordsworth believes he hears "human music" in this poem. The speaker's admiration for and the gratitude of the Reaper is the thought conveyed in the first two stanza of the poem because the speaker says that 'the sound of the music is more welcoming than any chant of the nightingale to weary travelers in the desert.'
The speakers appreciates the tone of the song of the young girl reaping in the fields and says it expresses beauty and that he likes the mood it creates within him.
Muir's writing is on both the beauty and harshness of nature. He talks about the beauty of the flower he discovered, but then talks about having to go without supper or blankets and how storms and the harsh weather conditions became welcomed after probably showing up a lot.
