Wordworth's "she Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways"

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Wordsworth’s poem, “She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways”, is a told in the perspective of the writer, about a woman named Lucy. This first person narrative, the speaker, describes the woman as how she appears in his eyes. The poem is brief but it is enough for the reader to understand the importance of Lucy to the speaker. From the words of the speaker, it can also be understood as to how Lucy’s beauty draws uniqueness and admiration to the speaker and how she stands out above the rest of the people. In the first stanza, it indicates that they are situated in “springs of Dove” (Wordsworth 2), or River Dove, where Lucy lives. She is young and alone, “A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love” (3-4). Where she lives, it is isolated and quiet as the writer describes Dove as a place with “none to praise” (3). In the eyes of the speaker, Lucy is lonesome, walking along the River Dove alone, in which he states that she is pacing along the river in “untrodden ways” (1), as if she is waiting for someone to join her, as she is still “A Maid” (3). However, due to the limited population of people that live by the River Dove, there is “very few to love” (4), which ultimately leaves Lucy in a secluded state. Ironically enough, although Lucy appears to be lonesome, she is unaware that she has caught the attention of the speaker. The speaker compares Lucy to a beautiful flower, that is left unwatched, where no one else sees her beauty but him. He uses the metaphor “A violet by a mossy tone Half hidden from the eye” (5-6), where he compares her beauty and innocence to that of a violet. Yet, her fairness is unseen from others as it is “Half hidden from the eye” (6). In the eyes of the speaker, he is able to see into Lucy’s “mossy” charms. This can further be elaborated to how Lucy’s existence stands out to the speaker. Further into the second stanza, he

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