She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways（英文诗歌赏析）.ppt

“She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” By William Wordsworth The Poem She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove,A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love: A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!– Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! Some Background Information William Wordsworth was an English Romantic poet. The poem was written in 1798. He fell in love with a French woman, Annette Vallon, in 1792. The poem is one of five in the ‘Lucy’ series. The poems in this series are all focused on a lady, ‘Lucy’, who Wordsworth expresses his emotional feelings through He was one of five children. Three of the children were poets themselves, influenced by the strong academic value in the family. He was influenced by his experience with the landscape and was further turned toward nature by the harsh treatment he received at the hands of his relatives. In particular, Wordsworth could not get along with his grandparents and his uncle, and his hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide. Lucy Wordsworth wrote his series of Lucy poems during a stay with his sister. The real life identity of Lucy has never been known. Wordsworth himself never addressed the matter of her existence, and was silent about commenting on the series. Lucys identity has been the subject of much speculation and some have guessed that the poems are an attempt by Wordsworth to say his affection for Dorothy; this line of thought interpretates that the poems exaggerate Wordsworths feelings of pain for her expected death. Wordsworths Lucy possesses a double existence, her actual, historical existence and her idealised existence in