GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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: -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-5: -In Lucy Gray, Lucy is a child of unknown age, a “little girl.” The in-cident is related nearly as it was told to Wordsworth by his sister. In the other poems, the five “Lucy” poems, Lucy has grown to womanhood. She has a lover. In one, the lover fears that she will die; in the other four, he laments her death.