The Solitary Reaper
I.. Write down your answers.
1.Wordsworth saw a group of reapers at work.
Answer:Not true
2.In this poem the poet speaks to his companion / to
himself. (underline the correct answer)
Answer:To himself
3.The poet saw some bundles of grain in the field.
Answer:True.
4.The reaper’s voice was resonant and sonorous.
Answer:Not true.
5.The reaper’s song was joyous. (True / Not True) scan
the poem and find three adjectives to support your answer
Answer:Not true.
adjectives: Old, unhappy sorrow, loss or pain
6.What welcomes travellers in the deserts of Arbia?
Answer:The sweet notes of the nightingale in a lonely desert seemed to welcome
the tired travelers in an oasis in an Arabian desert.
7.Where do birds sing in deserts?
Answer:Obviously birds are not found in deserts, but when the tired travellers
reach any oasis these the birds are found singing.
8.Can you imagine the “silence of the seas”? Explain this
beautiful expression to your partner.
Answer:The silence of the seas means a sea that is really calm and peaceful
with only calm waves moving, and there are no ships and boats moving about. The
sea is poetically ‘silent’ because no storms, gales are blowing to disturb the
peace of the sea.
9.What breaks the silence of the seas? The song of Cuckoo-bird
in springtime
Answer:breaks the silence of the seas. Among the farthest Hebrides.
10.There are five words in the poem that are related to
music, scan the poem and find them.
Answer:The five Words are resonant, sonorous, chant, notes, plaintive, theme,
numbers, strain.
11.The poet wonders what the theme of the maiden’s song
could be. What does he say about this?
Answer:Poet does not understand the alien language of the song. He says, will
no one tell him the meaning of the song of the girl. He says that perhaps the
girl is singing some sad song of the past he guesses that the girl is singing
some unhappy song or singing about events that have taken in the past. Maybe
she is singing for the lover who has jilted her. The poet did not know the
theme of the song-whatever may be the theme of the song the poet wishes the
song of the young girl would not come to an end.
12.What was the effect of the song on the poet?
Answer:In this poem, Wordsworth said that he was able to look at nature and
hear human music. He writes about real human music encountered in a believed,
rustic setting. What he appreciates is its tone, its expressive beauty, and the
mood it creates within him, rather than its explicit content, at which he can
only guess.
But what it really does is praise the beauty of music and its fluid expressive beauty, the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling that Wordsworth identified at the heart of poetry.
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