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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


"How can one properly describe the death of a young girl who has lived close to the genius of nature?" (Beer 95) Many critics have analyzed these poems, and many of the same conclusions have come to arise. Poets added moonlight to their poems to instill the thoughts of mystery, since darkness has a premonition of fear (Reynolds 23). Every man has some knowledge of nature, so every man should be able to interpret what Wordsworth is saying. Lucy's identity mirrors that of a ghost in all but one poem (Lucy Gray) in the way she makes her exit, always with an immediate sense of nonexistence. She is thought to be Wordsworth's fantasy or his lover, and to some she is believed to be a relative who he held very close to his heart. He believed that Lucy possessed the qualities of both: her growth in the flesh portrays the organic harmony of a flower's growth, while her own inward light gives her the quality of a star (Beer 95-6). Whatever the relation or age, his love for Lucy shows so vividly throughout each of these poems that the reader can feel it. Many believe that since this is true, Wordsworth is talking about a ghost. Geoffrey Hartman a renowned critic added that he believed that when people amount to nothing in the eyes of the world, they become their own world in each other's eyes (Hartman 43).

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