Three Years She Grew As a Lucy Poem by Wordsworth

Three Years She Grew As  a  Lucy Poem by Wordsworth

            Series of five poems Composed by Wordsworth between 1798- 1801.  Three Years she grew is made of seven , six line stanza each have AA BC CB rhyme scheme . This poem is one of a  set of usually   called “ Lucy Poems ”. The identity of Lucy never been discovered.

Imagination was intellect reason apply with the elements….

        Poetry is intense emotions

            recollected in tranquility …..

Lucy poem emphasizes the abstract ideals of nature beauty,  love, longing, death.

  Nature then expounds on what is means to be nature’s lady for several stanzas . The poem becomes the beautiful elegy written to woman who had died & who Wordsworth admired not only for  her beauty, but also for her connection to nature, which Wordsworth  felt was the highest possible achievements.

Three  Years  She  grew  in  sun and  shower,

Then  Nature said,  “  A    lovelier  flower

On earth  was  ne’er  sown;

This  child I to  myself  will take ;

She  shall be mine , and I will make

A  Lady  of my own .

Very  beginning of the poem, typically romantic in its emphasis on harmony between humans & nature . The beauty and  innocence  of children, the resemblance of children to flowers, and the sadness potentially provoked by the death of the children. The entire poem, is typical of Wordsworth’s emphasizes on beauties of physical nature, an emphasis that is one of the chief characteristic of romantic poets.

A girl grew up among the basic nature’s elements of “sun and  shower” phrasing that already prepare us for comparison . Apparently girl was appealing that personified nature, in a sense, to adopt the girl as her own. Wordsworth believes in general, that human beings profit from  their contacts with the beauties  of nature, & in this poem the girl is an unusual specific instance of nature’s beneficial influence.

Nature will motivate the girl to grow in the right ways  by  encouraging  or kind proper impulse .In  several  stanza  it is  described  that  she will be  everywhere, playing with the  beautiful animals, in valleys, in mountains, being a part of the rocks , the earth , the heaven , cloud, the trees and storms Lucy will be living  with  Nature enjoying  it and Lucy will be in Constant communication.

Thus  Nature spake - the  work was  done

How  soon  my Lucy ‘s race was run !

She died , and left  to me

This heath, this calm , and quiet scene;

The memory of what has been ,

And never more will be .

It is only in the end that the reader  finally learns that- what  happened to Lucy (she died as soon as she reached maturity ) and  why the speaker  is writing the poem out of grief.

Nature declare that her work is done. Lucy  is  no more  there…!