ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -"Lucy Gray” is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1799 and published in his Lyrical Ballads. It describes the death of a young girl named Lucy Gray, who went out one evening into a storm.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “Lucy poems” consist of “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: -About the author Wordsworth’s masterpiece is generally considered to be The Prelude, an autobiographical poem of his early years which the poet revised and expanded a number of times. The work was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem “to Coleridge".

Detailed explanation-5: -Selected Poems is a collection of Wordsworth’s most acclaimed and influential works, from his best known poem, ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, to an extract from his magnum opus The Prelude.