William Words Worth is great writer of romantic age. He is called the poet nature for he has interpreted nature in almost all his poems.
'Lucy Gray' is closer to the northern ballads. It describes the tragedy of a Little girl Lucy Gray. She lived on a wild plain her parents. Once her mother had gone to the nearby town for some work. Her father asked her to go to the town as he felt the coming night would he stormy night. Being an obedient child, she gladly set out for the town but unfortunately the storm came before its expected time. She wandered up and down but she was overtaken by the storm and lost her way.
When the storm was over and she did not return her parents started searching for her. At last when they were returning home, her mother found the foot-marks of Lucy's feet on the snow. They followed these foot marks till they reached into the middle of a wooden bridge. They found that in the middle of the bridge a plank had been broken and there after the foot prints were not seen. It means she drowned in the stream.
In the end of the poem, the poet says that since this tragic event, it is the belief of some people that she is still alive. Whenever such strong wind blows, she also comes there and sings a sad song which echoes in the stormy wind and never looks behind.
Central idea of lucy gray
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