...fills, And dances with the daffodils. cxu. THE SOLITARY REAPER. T) EHOLD her single in the field, -L' Yon solitary Highland lass ! Reaping and singing by...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain ; Oh listen ! for the vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No nightingale did ever chaunt More...

...signal a desire for expressivity but for elegance: they represent an attempt to avoid repetition*. Ex: Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself. W. Wordsworth, The Solitary Reaper' See counter-pleonasm*, R2. R5: When they appear with different...

...thought.3 I shall place the poem in evidence here for the reader's convenience in subsequent discussion: The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field....for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. Liu, Sense of History, 638 n. 20. I have not taken up Hartman's reading of "Westminster Bridge" in...

...shade, and all alone, she's singing — the rice-planting maid. (Kobayashi Issa tr. Harold G. Henderson) The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field,...and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! 5 Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound...

...human sweetness with the thought Of travelling through the world that lay Before me in my endless way. The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt 10 More...

...romanticism. If Bellini had been a poet, he could have written Wordsworth's 'The Solitary Reaper': Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy...for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. . . . Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow For old, unhappy, far-off...

...reapers. It is not uncommon ... to see a single person so employed." (p. 193) 165. Balquhidder Glen. The solitary reaper. Behold her single in the field,...solitary Highland Lass, Reaping and singing by herself— (William Wordsworth, p. 193) 166. Callander. "Rose early, and departed before breakfast. The morning...

...Once the 'very now' is established, Wordsworth reverts to the simple present of summary reportage. 9 Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland...for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. (from The Solitary Reaper, 1807) In (9), again an opening stanza, Wordsworth clearly aims, in Edgeworth's...

...and other superhuman presences in all parts of nature. Fo RM : Italian sonnet rhyming abbaabbacdcdcd. The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt More...

...Your Father such example gave, And such revere! But be admonished by his Grave, And think, and fear! The Solitary Reaper Behold her, single in the field,...and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; 0 listen! for the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. No Nightingale did ever chaunt So sweetly...