Mainly we have two themes in this poem. First one is
poetry itself. Through a revolutionary idea Wordsworth changed the entire concept of
poetry . Neglecting the lives of kings and queens and lords and ladies as the theme of
poetry ,he introduced simple objects as the theme of poetry. This can be called as the
Romantic Revival in the history of English Literature. Leaving all the glorious things
in the world he took a lonely reaper as the subject of this
poem.
Secondly we can say that sorrow and lonliness as the
other themes of 'solitary Reaper'. The very oppening of the poem itself justifies this
theme: "Behold her, single in the field,". The beauty of loneliness is discribed here.
When he says, "And sings a melancholy strain;" we are sure about the theme of sorrow
here
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