Based on this excerpt from the poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth, what can be determined about the speaker and the singing solitary reaper? No Nightingale did ever chaunt1 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 Hebrides2. 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? 1 sing 2 a large archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, composed of the oldest rocks in the British Isles

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Eleanor Cain

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26 June, 21:07

Based on this excerpt from the poem "The Solitary Reaper" by William Wordsworth, what can be determined about the speaker and the singing solitary reaper? No Nightingale did ever chaunt1 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 Hebrides2. 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? 1 sing 2 a large archipelago off the west coast of Scotland, composed of the oldest rocks in the British Isles

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Zack Friedman · Answer 1

They do not speak the same language.

The speaker expresses that he does not understand the song of the nightingale. The speaker also expresses his curiosity and wonders what the song is about as showed in line: " Will no one tell me what she sings? ".