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September 24, 2008 · 2 Comments

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  • bianca87 // September 29, 2008 at 1:43 am

    Wordsworth’s Solitude

    After reading a little about Wordsworth’s life, it seems to me that he went through a lot at an early age. He lost his mother at 8 years old, which split up his family, and then 5 years later, he lost his father. He seemed especially close to his sister Dorthy and ended up living with her in his later years. In his poem, “Lucy Gray”, end editor of our book gave the footnote that the events in the book were true to history in that a little girl did get lost in a snowstorm and ended up dying. Wordsworth’s sister told him this story to which he based this poem after. In another footnote, the editor tells us that the poet Coleridge thought that Wordsworth has a fear that his sister would die, so he wrote “Lucy Gray” from those emotions. It seems to me that Wordsworth’s past still haunts him with all the deaths in his family. He mentions “Lucy” in “Strange fits of passion have I known”, and Song (“She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways”). In each one, it refers to Lucy’s death and solitude in many ways. Wordsworth’s emphasis on another’s solitude directly relates to his own feelings of aloneness. His poems, to me, are a clear reflection of his past and have influenced his writings tremendously.

  • bianca87 // September 29, 2008 at 1:59 am

    *** This is the only place this would post for me, so yes, I’m commenting my own post, haha. The time is 10pm now also, the timing on the posts are off.

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