The Solitary Reaper Themes

We're in Scotland for this poem, and there's a highland lass (a woman from the northern part of Scotland) out in the fields. That covers the culture part. She also happens to be singing a song, and...

The speaker of "The Solitary Reaper" is an Englishman, and he just so happens to encounter a highland lass singing a song in a language he can't understand. Now even though the speaker and this wom...

Nightingales and cuckoos, fields and farm labor—the natural world is alive and well in "The Solitary Reaper" (heck it's alive and well in pretty much all of Wordsworth's poems). The solitary reap...