Lucy Poems by William Wordsworth: An Analysis

Romantic age has produced a number of poets and writers. Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley are the hallmarks of this movement. William Wordsworth stands above them all because his poems are equally popular among the critics and the readers. Every reader of English poetry knows that Wordsworth was an ardent lover of nature and its shifting phenomena like the clouds, moon and winds. Man is the central theme in most of his poems because he considers man as the best masterpiece of nature. Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April, 23, 1850) was born in Cockermouth, Cumberland in the Lake district of England. He and his sister Dorothy used to play on the bank of the Derwent River. Since childhood, he was much impressed by the sunlight reflecting through its waters. He loved and married Annette Vallon and in turn, nature gifted them with a daughter Caroline. Wordsworth and Coleridge wrote ‘Lyrical Ballads’, published in 1798, comprising on 23 poems out of which 19 were the outcome of Wordsworth’s imagin...