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"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800, a volume of Wordsworth's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement .
"She dwelt among the untrodden ways" presents Lucy as having lived in solitude near the source of the River Dove. [A 5] According to literary critic Geoffrey Durrant, the poem charts her "growth, perfection, and death". [52] To convey the dignified, unaffected naturalness of his subject, Wordsworth uses simple language, mostly words of one ...
She dwelt among the untrodden ways (The Lost Love) She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! - Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be ...
She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways; A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, &c. The Waterfall and the Eglantine; The Oak and the Broom, a Pastoral; Lucy Gray; The Idle Shepherd-Boys or Dungeon-Gill Force, a Pastoral 'Tis said that some have died for love, &c. Poor Susan; Inscription for the Spot where the Hermitage Stood on St Herbert's Island, Derwent-Water
From October 1798, Wordsworth worked on the drafts for his "Lucy poems", which included "Strange fits of passion have I known", "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" and "A slumber". [1] In December 1798, Wordsworth sent copies of "Strange fits" and "She dwelt" to Coleridge and followed his letter with "A slumber".
It is uncertain whether the Lucy of the poem was based on a historical person or was a creation of Wordsworth's fertile imagination. If she is real, her surname and identity are unknown, though they have been the subject of much "diligent speculation" in literary circles. "The one certainty is that she is not the girl of Wordsworth's Lucy Gray ...
Among all lovely things my Love had been; I travell'd among unknown Men; Ode to Duty; POEMS, COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT. 1. Beggars; 2. To a Sky-Lark; 3. With how sad Steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the Sky; 4. Alice Fell; 5. Resolution and Independence; SONNETS Prefatory Sonnet; PART THE FIRST—MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS. 1. 2. 3.
Lucy Gray is generally not included with Wordsworth's "Lucy" poems, [4] even though it is a poem that mentions a character named Lucy. [3] The poem is excluded from the series because the traditional "Lucy" poems are uncertain about the age of Lucy and her actual relationship with the narrator, and Lucy Gray provides exact details on both. [5]