Paper No : 06 ( The Romantic

Literature )

Sem : 02

Date : 28/01/2015

Department of English

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji

Bhavnagar University

• 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

Beauty

LoveLonging

DeathAbstract

ideals

of Lucy

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…!