The Solitary Reaper Art and Culture Quotes

The speaker really is at a loss for words. Well, not really, but he has a hard time describing the woman's song. All he really tells us is that it doesn't sound like any other songs he's ever heard.

The speaker does the same thing that he did in lines 9-12: tells that this woman's song is more thrilling than anything else anywhere ever. (Okay, he doesn't say it in those words but that's what he means.) The subtext is: you could travel to the ends of the earth (symbolized by the Hebrides) and not find anything so thrilling.

There it is again, the combination of singing and working. These two things go together like butter and toast. Maybe art really is born from hard, backbreaking labor.