Lucy Gray
Writer: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
The poet narrates a tragic story of a beautiful innocent little girl, Lucy Gray, who lived in wild pain with her parents. Once in the winter season, her mother had gone to the nearby town for some work. Her father asked her to take a lantern and bring back her mother as a storm was expected in the night. Being an obedient child, she gladly set out for the town but unfortunately, when she was still on her way, the storm came before its expected time and she was caught. She lost her path and wandered up and down on many hills but neither she reached the nor she returned her home.
when the storm was over in the evening and her mother returned home, she did not see her daughter, then the parents of Lucy Gray started searching her but did not find her anywhere. While returning home, her mother saw the footprints of Lucy Gray on the snow. They followed that footprint till they reached into the middle of the wooden bridge, built over a canal. Thereafter no footprint was seen. It means that Lucy Gray drowned in the canal.
In the end, the poet says that since this tragic event, it is the common belief of the people of that area that Lucy Gray is not dead but still she is alive and whenever such a storm blows, she also comes there. she also comes there. she sings a song alone, which echoes in the wind.
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