how does Wordsworth bring out the sweetness of the solitary reaper song
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He brought out the sweetness of the reaper's song by comparing her voice to the singing of a nightingale and a cuckoo bird. The poet found the quality of the reaper’s song quite divine and sublime. He was so much attracted by her song that he stood transfixed. The words or expressions in the poem which highlight the quality of her song are given below:
No nightingale did ever chant
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.
The nightingale and the cuckoo are known worldwide to be the birds with the sweetest sounds. Wordsworth brings out the sweetness in the song sung by the solitary reaper by comparing it to the tones of the nightingale and the cuckoo.
He says that the reaper sang so sweetly that it surpassed the chants that the nightingale sang to entertain the weary travellers. Even the voice of the cuckoo during the spring season was not as thrilling.