Help with Wordsworth's Three Years She Grew

[mountaintops]

Hi!


I'm writing a paper on Ananlyzing one of Wordworth's Lucy Poems:Three Years she Grew in relation to romanticism. Im right now just trying to research some background & understanding on this poem, because i am finding it quite difficult. Does anyone have some knowledge on this poem that they would like to share? THANKS SO MUCH !

[PeterL]

What do you find difficult? Rather than being blessed by fairies at birth she was blessed by Nature when she was three years old. All, except the first and last stanzas, are Nature's promises to her. The last stanza states that she died after the promises were fulfilled. It's a neat little poem.

[mountaintops]

i just was wondering is there any vital background info?
what was lucy & william's relationship like?
is he referencing to anything important throughtout the poem?
what is he trying to say through the poem, etc.


thanks for your help

[PeterL]

I have no idea what their relationship was, not does anyone else, see links. The poem is quite clear that as a three year old she had promise to grow into a fine woman, she did and she died. Take from that what you will.

DID WORDSWORTH KILL LUCY?
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/9140
Wordsworth wrote a series of poems to/about a strange woman
named "Lucy," but no one's sure who the heck she was.
http://www.usd.edu/~tgannon/txts/wordsfaq.txt

[mountaintops]

okay, thankyou !
yeah i figured it had to be a lot of just my personal interpatation i just didnt want to be missing something huge, since i didnt have any background info about his writing before. thanks so much, ill check out those link :)