a poem set in picturesque,rustic background
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'Picturesque' means scenic and beautiful, full of natural beauty.
'Rustic' refers to a village setting; not modern or fast paced, not polished or pretentious. So, the poem needs to be set in the beautiful countryside, away from the city. Poets from the Romantic Age often wrote poems that focussed on nature, but the poem taht comes foremost to my mind is 'Solitary Reaper' by William Wordsworth.
The poet comes across a girl in the fields, who is singing as she works. Her song, though in an unknown language, gives the poet utmost joy. It mesmerises him as it reminds him of the nightingale and the cuckoo and refreshed him.
In the poem, the girl is present all by herself in the fields (rustic touch), with no one else around. The setting is the open countryside, with the poet mentioning that there are hills nearby, since her voice fills up the entire valley and also since the poet is himself travelling up the hills. The geographic details add the scenic beauty to the poem.