Q.8: Why do you think Wordsworth has chosen the songs of the nightingale and the cuckoo, for comparison with the solitary reaper s song? Ans: Wordsworth while listening to the reaper s song recalls the sweet songs of the nightingale and the cuckoo. The girl s song is sweeter than the welcome song of the nightingale to a group of tired travelers in some oasis of the Arabian Desert. It is sweeter than the song of the cuckoo that disturbs the silence of the seas to herald the advent of spring. The nightingale and the cuckoo are the two sweetest singing birds of the world. Through the two comparisons, the poet underlines the fact that the girl s song is more melodious than the songs of those famous singing birds.