Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Solitary Reaper
- context
- poet - William Wordsworth
- believed in Pantheism
- being at one with
nature improves
relationship with God
- Romantic
- emotion and intuition
over reason and
intellect
- 'nature is the music of humanity'
- 'the spontaneous
overflow of powerful
feelings'
- time written - 1807
- literary techniques
- ballad form
- alternates
between lines of
iambic
tetrameter/trimeter
(s/6 syllables)
- traditional form =
traditional work
- usually a song
- echoes content of poem
- tells epic events
- elevates the
reaper
- shifting focus of stanzas
- first - imperatives
- second - declaratives
- third - interrogatives
- alliteration
- archaic language - 'yon', 'ne'er'
- reminder
- apostrophe - 'O listen!'
- strong outburst of feeling
- overwhelmed
- religious term - 'Behold her'
- utmost repect
- adoration
- sibilance - 'silence of the seas'
- almost onomatopoeic
- theme of work