_A POEM BY WILLIAM WORDSWOTH THAT I LOVE SO MUCH_

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 THE SOLITARY REAPER-     William Wordsworth(1770-1850)

THEMES     -     Beauty in Simplicity
                     Sorrow
                     Everlasting Beauty of Nature

                                                                           
              
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 from the cuckoo-bird, 
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides. 
  

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 today ?
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 
That has been, and may be again ?


Whate'er the theme, the Maiden sang 
As if her song could have no ending;
I saw her singing at her work
And o'er the sickle bending--
I listen' d, motionless and still;
And, as I mounted up the hill
Long after it was heard no more.
  

William Wordsworth


The Solitary Reaper - 
  • Written during a tour in Scotland.
  • Comparisons are done with nature.
  • By chance, the poet sees the reaper

Five points in Wordsworth's creed of nature may be noted ;

  1. He treated nature as living personality.
  2. Wordsworth believed that the company of nature gives joy to the human heart and he regarded nature as a healing influence for sorrow stricken-heart.
  3. Wordsworth emphasized the moral influence of nature.(ex; The poem of Written in London, sept 1802)
  4. Wordsworth's attitude to nature can be clearly differentiated from that of other great poets of nature,  He did not prefer wild and stormy aspect of nature like Byron.  He did not recognize the ugly side of Nature like Tennyson.
  5. Wordsworth stressed upon the moral influences of nature and the need of man's spiritual discourse with her. His heart sang of the beauty he saw in nature. From his point of view, we should find joy in nature.    


NATURE NEVER DID BETRAY THE HEART THAT LOVED HER.
-WILLIAM WORDSWORTH-


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