Can you please check if the following paraphrase (?) of Wordsworth's poem is correct? Thank you very much.
1)This poem was probably inspired by a walking tour of the Scottish Highlands which W., his sister Dorothy and Coleridge went on in 1893.
2)In the first stanza the poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass” reaping and singing by herself in a field.
3)The poet is probably addressing an imaginary reader. The scene is set in a field, a valley in the Highland.
4)He says that anyone passing by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her.
5)As she “cuts and binds the grain” she “sings a melancholy strain,” and the valley overflows with the beautiful, sad sound.
6) The speaker says that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the nightingale to weary travelers in the desert, and that the cuckoo-bird in spring never sang with a voice so thrilling.
7)The reaper’s song is therefore compared to the singing of the nightingale and of the cuckoo. The song of the birds and the reaper all arouse pleasant emotions. They suggest far-off and solitary places, e.g. “Arabian sands”, “farthest Hebrides”.
8)They have remoteness and silence in common.
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