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    William Wordsworth, considered one of the fathers of the British Romantic Movement, wrote Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. Inspired by the beauty of the Lake District in Northern England, the poems attempted to capture human emotions like love, rejection, and loss, which were popular during the romantic era. Wordsworth's collection of five poems known as "The Lucy Poems" describe a narrator who is desperately in love with a girl named Lucy in a small village, but she dies before he can express his true feelings to her. While Lucy's true identity remains a mystery, the poems examine themes of nature, death, and the complex moods surrounding love, grief, creativity, and

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    William Wordsworth, considered one of the fathers of the British Romantic Movement, wrote Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. Inspired by the beauty of the Lake District in Northern England, the poems attempted to capture human emotions like love, rejection, and loss, which were popular during the romantic era. Wordsworth's collection of five poems known as "The Lucy Poems" describe a narrator who is desperately in love with a girl named Lucy in a small village, but she dies before he can express his true feelings to her. While Lucy's true identity remains a mystery, the poems examine themes of nature, death, and the complex moods surrounding love, grief, creativity, and

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    William Wordsworth, considered one of the fathers of the British Romantic Movement, wrote Lyrical Ballads with Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1789. Inspired by the beauty of the Lake District in Northern England, the poems attempted to capture human emotions like love, rejection, and loss, which were popular during the romantic era. Wordsworth's collection of five poems known as "The Lucy Poems" describe a narrator who is desperately in love with a girl named Lucy in a small village, but she dies before he can express his true feelings to her. While Lucy's true identity remains a mystery, the poems examine themes of nature, death, and the complex moods surrounding love, grief, creativity, and

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    William Wordsworth born in 1770 is considered one the two fathers of The

    British Romantic Movement. In 1789 Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Colridge


    wrote a collection of poems entitled Lyrical Balladswich emulated the
    romantic poems that were becoming increasingly popular in Germany and
    France. Inspired by the beauty of Northearn Englands Lake District,the poems
    attempted to capture the human emotions in words. Emotions such as love,
    rejection and loss were very popular in the romantic era. And nowere
    is this more profound than in Wordsworths collection of 5 poems
    know as The Lucy Poems. Wordsworth wrote Lucy Poems while
    homesick on vacation with his older sister Dorothy. Each one of the 5
    poems describes a narrator who is desperatly in love with a girl, in a
    small village, who dies before ever learning of the narrators true
    feelings. While many belive that there is no real life inspiration for Lucy,
    stating that Lucy is just an ideal concept of love and womenhood , others have
    argued that given the deepts of feelings Wordsworth seems to capture in his
    poems, maybe there really was a Lucy. Lucys true identity however remains
    one of the literate mysteries of all time. In 1980, Hunter Davies contended
    that the series was written for the poet's sister Dorothy, but found the
    LucyDorothy allusion "bizarre". Earlier, literary critic Richard Matlak tried
    to explain the LucyDorothy connection, and wrote that Dorothy represented a
    financial burden to Wordsworth, which had effectively forced his separation
    from Coleridge. Wordsworth, depressed over the separation from his friend, in
    this interpretation, expresses both his love for his sister and fantasies about
    her loss through the poems. Throughout the poems, the narrator's mixture of
    mourning and antipathy is accompanied by denial and guilt; his denial of the
    LucyDorothy relationship and the lack of narratorial responsibility for the
    death of Lucy allow him to escape from questioning his desires for the death of
    his sister. The series is generally considered to examine two broad themes:
    NATURE: According to critics, Wordsworth built his reputation as a "poet of
    nature". Early works, such as "Tintern Abbey", can be viewed as odes to his
    experience of nature. His poems can also be seen as lyrical meditations on the
    fundamental character of the natural world. Wordsworth said that, as a youth,
    nature stirred "an appetite, a feeling and a love", but by the time he wrote
    Lyrical Ballads, it evoked "the still sad music of humanity". The five "Lucy
    poems" are often interpreted as representing Wordsworth's opposing views of
    nature as well as meditations on the cycle of life. They describe a variety of
    relationships between humanity and nature. Wordsworth sometimes described
    nature more than Lucy herself. Although the poems evoke a sense of loss,
    they also hint at the completeness of Lucy's lifeshe was raised by
    nature and survives in the memories of others.
    DEATH: The narrator is affected greatly by Lucy's death and cries out in "She
    dwelt" of "the difference to me!". Yet in "A slumber" he is spared from trauma
    by sleep. Her death suggests that nature can bring pain to all, even to those
    who loved her. The "Lucy poems" often fail to distinguish the difference
    between life and death. They describe a rite of passage from innocent
    childhood to corrupted maturity
    MOODS:

    The poems are about a muse: love, or object of affection, inspiration loved from afar and the poet's/speaker dealing with the death of that
    person (Lucy). Compounding that grief is that Lucy was the inspiration for
    the poet's creativity. So, the mood is elegiac, melancholy. Other themes
    and moods are nostalgia, imagination and memory which dominate a lot
    of Wordsworth's poetry.

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