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 are a series of five poems composed by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) between 1798 and 1801.

Detailed explanation-3: -A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seem’d a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force; 5 She neither hears nor sees; Roll’d round in earth’s diurnal course With rocks, and stones, and trees.

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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.