Lucy Poems 4
Lucy Poems 4 - context Summary
Composed 1798, Published 1800
Written around 1798 and published in the 1800 Lyrical Ballads, this Lucy poem frames an idealized, solitary woman whose unnoticed life and quiet death evoke nature, private grief, and the poet’s personal sense of loss. The plain, intimate voice turns Lucy into both a pastoral image and a locus of emotional attachment, reflecting Wordsworth’s recurring themes of isolation, memory, and the consolation and poignancy of natural surroundings.
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