The Nature of Lucy

William Wordsworth is a revered romantic poet who believed that the meaning of romanticism is best illustrated when using everyday life events and familiar speech. Wordsworth’s explicit love of nature and mastery of the language allowed him to bring such emotion and power into each poem without the use of sophisticated words, which he believes takes away the effect of what is trying to be said. His intentions were such that any man capable of reading, well educated or not, could feel these emotions and fully understand his projected messages. “He drops to the earth, for once, all that matter-of-factness of which Coleridge complained” (Internet Bartleby). (Coleridge did not look to nature the way Wordsworth did). Wordsworth best shows his love of nature throughout his renowned “Lucy Poems.” In these poems Lucy is considered a child of nature. She is pure like the earth and has been cared for by nature since her tenderest years, “Nature vowed to make her ‘a Lady of her own’” (Bartleby). Wordsworth seems to believe that her death was an act of fate, with Nature being so in love with her that it had to take her back from the Earth. Nature serves as a vitalizing, inspiring force in all Wordsworth’s wor

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