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1. SRI KRISHNA ARTS AND SCIENCE COLLEGE
Course
Professional Communication - I
Course Code
21AEC23
Topic
Poetry- Incorporating LSRW skills in William Wordsworth –The Solitary
Reaper

2. Poetry- Incorporating LSRW
skills in William Wordsworth
–The Solitary Reaper

3. The Solitary Reaper
By William Wordsworth

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.

4. No Nightingale did ever chaunt

More welcome notes to weary bands

Of travellers in some shady haunt,

Among Arabian sands:

A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard

In spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,

Breaking the silence of the seas

Among the farthest Hebrides.

5. 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?

6. 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 listened, motionless and still;

And, as I mounted up the hill,

The music in my heart I bore,

Long after it was heard no more.

7. Summary

The poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass”
reaping and singing by herself in a field. He says that anyone passing
by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her.
As she “cuts and binds the grain” she “sings a melancholy strain,” and
the valley overflows with the beautiful, sad sound. The speaker says
that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the nightingale to
weary travelers in the desert, and that the cuckoo-bird in spring never
sang with a voice so thrilling.

8. Summary
Impatient, the poet asks, “Will no one tell me what she sings?” He
speculates that her song might be about “old, unhappy, far-off things,
/ And battles long ago,” or that it might be humbler, a simple song
about “matter of today.”
Whatever she sings about, he says, he listened “motionless and still,”
and as he traveled up the hill, he carried her song with him in his
heart long after he could no longer hear it.

9. Major Themes in “The Solitary Reaper”:
Everlasting beauty and sorrow are the major themes of this poem. The poem
presents two things; the labor of that girl and her expression of sorrow. S
he is working and singing at the same time without being bothered about her
surroundings. She does not notice that the speaker is listening and enjoying
her song. She just continues as if she is outpouring her heart out in the lap of
nature.
The speaker, on the other hand, seems enchanted by her song as
he claims that the song’s beauty is matchless. Thus, he stops and enjoys its
beauty knowing it will not last forever.

10. When the students read poetry, it improves their
vocabulary, sentence formation, syntax, fluency and the
creative skills.
The genre poetry not only improves the communication skills
but also improves the four skills such as LSRW ie, Listening,
Speaking, Reading and writing.

11. Listening Skills through the poem
Identifying the rhyme scheme when the poem is read out loud
Identify stress words and syllables
Make the students listen to the recital of the poem in various
accents
The students should observe certain words from the poem and
be able to reproduce them in different sentences

12. Speaking skills through the poem
Pre-reading speaking activities to get the students into the topic
After listening to the poem, they students might be asked to
paraphrase the poem in their own words.
The students can be asked to take a perspective and narrate
their point of view
Pronunciation can be enhanced through recital

13. Reading skills through the Poem
A pre-reading activity can be given just by revealing one or two lines from the
poem, and can guess what the poem is about
Students can be asked to read out the poem loud in different accents
They can do a recital of the poem
Questions can be given related to the poem and the students can be made to
answer
Students can answer questions based on syntax, grammar and poetic devices

14. Writing skills through the poem
Students can be asked to pen a similar poem
Students can write a letter to a character in the poem expressing
their views on them
Reformulation activities wherein the students switch between formal
and informal language
Students can be allowed to cross genres and express the same
content as a journal entry or a letter or even a newspaper article

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