The Solitary Reaper
The Solitary Reaper
Introduction
The poem the Solitary Reaper by William words worth is a poem that is written by William after
his encounter with a young woman who was singing a beautiful song that William could not
understand. The poem talks about the lady and the song she was singing. The Flea is a poem
that is written by John Donne. The poem explains the relationship between the character that is
a man and a woman using the flea as a metaphor. The title Flea was developed after a woman
in a saloon was bitten by a flea as the poets were reciting poems in the salon. This attracted the
poets and they started writing poems about the animal. The thesis statement is comparing and
contrasting the structure, the language and the titles of the poems the Solitary Reaper by
William and the Flea by John (Kirszner, &Mandell, 2010)
Title
The titles of the two poems are similar as they are derived from a certain adventure and they
are connected with the content or message of the poem. The title Solitary Reaper is derived
from the encounter William had with the lady. William wrote this poem using this title because
he was interested in the song the woman was singing. The title is connected with the content or
message of the poem. The title the Flea is derived from the encounter the poets had in the
salon as a woman was bitten by the flea hence the name. The title flea is connected with the
message of the poem as the author has used the flea to show the relationship between the man
and the woman. The flea bites the characters in the story showing the relationship between the
two (Kirszner, &Mandell, 2010)
Structure
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The two poems have different structures. The poem the Flea by John Donne has three stanzas
and each stanza has nine lines while the poem the Solitary Reaper by William has four stanzas
with each stanza having eight lines. The two poems are similar in line structure as the authors
have used both complete sentences and incomplete sentences and the sentences convey the
right meaning. Another similarity between the two poems is the length of the stanzas. The
stanzas in the poem the Flea and the poem the Solitary Reaper are similar as the lines in the
poem have varying length (Kirszner, &Mandell, 2010)
Language
The language in the two poems is also different. In the poem the Flea by John the author has
used a persuasive language so as to convey the message in the poem well. The persuasive
language is seen between the characters in the poem. While in the poem the Solitary Reaper
the author has not used a persuasive language but a conversation language to show how the
woman was singing while reaping the grain and how he could not understand the song. In the
Solitary reaper the author has used conversational words while in the Flea the author has used
persuasive words (Kirszner, &Mandell, 2010)
Conclusion
The thesis statement is comparing and contrasting the structure, the title and the language of
the two poems. That is the Flea by John and the Solitary Reaper by William. The two poems are
similar in that the titles of the poems are derived from an adventure and the titles are
interconnected with the content of the poems. The two poems have different structures as the
Flea has three stanzas with each stanza having nine lines and the Solitary Reaper has four
stanzas with each stanza having eight lines. The poems have also used different languages to
convey the message (Kirszner, &Mandell, 2010)
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Reference
Kirszner, L, &Mandell, S,2010,Literature: Reading, Reacting, Writing,edition7,Cengage
Learning,
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