ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wordsworth examines the poet’s unrequited love for the idealised character of Lucy, an English girl who has died young. The idea of her death weighs heavily on the poet throughout the series, imbuing it with a melancholic, elegiac tone.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Lucy poems” is composed by the following poems, in order they appear: “Strange fits of passion have I known", “She dwelt among the untrodden ways", “I travelled among unknown men", “Three years she grew in sun and shower", and “A slumber did my spirit seal".

Detailed explanation-3: -In his poem, Lucy Gray, Wordsworth, in showing the helplessness of both child and parent, demonstrates the futility of man’s ceaseless warring against nature and the dominance of primitive forces. At the very outset of the poem, Lucy sets out to show her mother through the snow before a winter storm rolls in.

Detailed explanation-4: -Wordsworth wrote five poems about Lucy, which center upon an imaginary girl of the English country side. Lucy lived in the country near the dive river where there was no poet to praise her and few people to understand her beauty.