The Solitary Reaper华兹华斯个人分析.doc

The Solitary Reaper is a ballad by English Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and one of his best-known works in English literature.[1] In it, Wordsworth describes in the first person, present tense, how he is amazed and moved by a Scottish Highlands girl who sings as she reaps grain in a solitary field. Composed in 1805, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Each of its four stanzas is eight lines long and written in iambic tetrameter, with a rhyme scheme of a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d, though in the first and last stanzas the A rhyme is off. The Solitary Reaper is one of Wordsworths most famous post-Lyrical Ballads lyrics.[1] The words of the reapers song are incomprehensible to the speaker, so his attention is free to focus on the tone, expressive beauty, and the blissful mood it creates in him. The poem functions to praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty, the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotion that Wordsworth identified at the heart of poetry.[1] Themes The poem mainly discusses the theme of poetry. Songs are poetry too, and that is clear to Wordsworth. We can see that he sees the girl as a poet because of the preface to Lyrical Ballads (1798). In it, Wordsworth maintained that poetry should not rely on artificial diction for its effort. Rather, it should be written in more ordinary language and simpler form so that all classes might appreciate it. The Solitary Reaper exemplifies this belief. However the reaper is one of Wordsworths most famous solitaries. Wordsworth used solitary characters to show how to be one with nature (See Old Man Travelling, There Was A Boy and Nutting), and this solitary is no different. The girl is compared to nightingales and cuckoo birds in a positive light, as though she is one of them, which shows her natural side. The vale profound/ Is overflowing with the sound, and this also shows that she and nature are sympathetic to each other. Other themes touched on are those of loss- some natural sorrow