I prepared this PPT on Wordsworth's Lucy Poem "Three years she grew", in which i try to described theme of the poem.

1. Paper No : 06 ( The Romantic
Literature )
Sem : 02
Date : 28/01/2015
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University

2. • 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.

3. • 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.

4. Nature
Beauty
LoveLonging
Death
Abstract
ideals
of Lucy

5.  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.

6. 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 .

7. • 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.

8. • 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.

9. • 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.

10. 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…!