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The Solitary Reaper
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04/02/2021 5:56 pm
Topic starter
Read the extract given below and answer the questions/complete the sentences that follow:
"A voice so thrilling neer was heard
In springtime from the cuckoo bird;
Breaking the silence of the seas ………….
Among the farthest Hebrides”
(a) Why does the poet compare the reaper’s voice to the song of the cuckoo bird?
(b) Name the poet of the poem.
(c) Name the literary device used in the third line.
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04/02/2021 5:58 pm
(a) The poet feels that the girl’s voice is sweeter than the sweet voice of the cuckoo, that is why; he makes this comparison.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Alliteration/personification.