The Scottish Highlands, a mountainous region situated in northwestern Scotland, act as the primary setting of the poem. The main indication that the poem takes place is in this part of Scotland is the fact that the speaker refers to the solitary reaper as a “Highland Lass,” and makes subsequent references to the nearby Hebrides archipelago (2). Not much physical description of the landscape is provided other than the field of grain in which the reaper works, apparently situated at the bottom of a hill, as evidenced by the final lines of the poem, and within a valley, as suggested by the way in which the reaper’s song is described as filling the vale.