The Solitary Reaper

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   gbeatty Teacher
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   The first image is of the Scottish girl herself, singing in the fields as she works:
   
   "BEHOLD her, single in the field,

    Yon solitary Highland Lass!

   Reaping and singing by herself;"

   
   This is contrasted with brief images of what she is not—the nightingale, desert travelers, etc. The final image is of the narrator watching her work and speculating about her. This makes the narrator wonder about the past, history, etc. ,but more abstractly than in images.

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