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This PowerPoint Presentation on the poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth is one of my favourite poems for Wordsworth's great sense of love towards nature and aesthetic beauty. I have been teaching this poem along with some other Wordsworthian poems for my B.A. Degree students and External English Course (BUSL/EEC/Programme) students for the last 7 years or so. I certainly enjoy teaching Wordsworth poetry as I am a great fan of this great romantic poet. Rev. Nivitigala Sumitta Thero ([email protected]; +94-714428905). I shall be highly obliged if you send me your feedbacks on this slideshow.
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BY WILLIAM
WORDSWORTH
Born on 7th April 1770&
Died on 23rd April 1850
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Bhiksu University of Sri LankaDepartment of Languages
External English Courses – Diploma Course
English Literature – Poetry
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Presented by
Rev. Nivitigala Sumitta Thero
(B.A. (Hons.) – English (Delhi University); M.A. – English (Delhi); M.A. – Buddhist Studies (Delhi); M.A. –
Linguistics (Kelaniya); Senior Lecturer in English, Bhiksu University of Sri Lanka)
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Stanza One
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.
………………………………………………………………………………………………… the sound of music being played or sungbroad, deep valley between two high ranges.
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Stanza Two
No Nightingale did ever chauntMore welcome notes to weary bandsOf travelers in some shady haunt,Among Arabian sands:A voice so thrilling ne'er was heardIn spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,Breaking the silence of the seasAmong the farthest Hebrides
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Stanza Three
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?
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STANZA FOUR
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, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
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Coleridge, Wordsworth, and his sister had visited the Scottish Highlands in
1803.
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DOROTHY'S RECOLLECTIONS FOR SEPTEMBER 13 THAT YEAR
NOTES:
"It was harvest time, and the fields were quietly -- might I be
allowed to say pensively? -- enlivened by small companies of reapers. It is not uncommon in
the more lonely parts of the Highlands to see a single person
so employed."
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IN A NOTE TO THE 1807 EDITION, WORDSWORTH TRACED THE POEM'S
SOURCE:
"This Poem was suggested by a beautiful sentence in a MS Tour in Scotland written
by a Friend, the last line being taken from it
verbatim."
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Thomas Wilkinson's manuscript, Tours to the British Mountains (London, 1824), states:
"Passed a Female who was reaping alone: she sung in Erse as she bended over her sickle; the sweetest human voice I ever heard: her strains were tenderly melancholy, and felt delicious, long after they were heard no more"
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ASSIGNMENT
• Come prepared for a speech on“Wordsworth as a nature lover”
(3 minutes)• Write an appreciation on the poem
“The Solitary Reaper”By William Wordsworth