*LUCY GRAY*

'Lucy Gray' by wordsworth deals with the theme of solitude and living with nature.

In the first of the Lucy' poems, called Lucy Gray, Lucy is described as a little girl, lived lonely life with her parents in the countryside. She seems who a to be the embodiment of of Nature, growing in beauty like a flower the spirit and dying naturally.

Wordsworth says that Lucy Gray is a little girl, living all alone. She has no friends and no companions. Like a beautiful flower, which has flowered at the doorstep, Lucy is also in the sweetest thing". One day, she disappeared and she was heard no more. The sweetest face of Lucy was never seen.

One stormy night Lucy's father asked her to go to the town to help her mother who had gone to the town. Further he asked her to take a lantern. Lucy happily agreed to do so. She started walking in the snow. She found it was very difficult to walk on the mountain and slipped on the powdery snow Suddenly the storm came and she wandered up and down. And she missed her path and she never reached the town. Her parents were shouting and searching for Lucy. And there was no sign of Lucy.

Lucy's father wept bitterly and cried that they all would meet in heaven. Her mother found footprints of Lucy in the And they started snow following the footprints. They traced it from the steep hill's edge to open fields. They found the same footprints there and followed them and they were led to a bridge and to the banks of the river. After that they found no footprints. And there was no sign of Luc Till to-day people believe that Lucy is a living child and one could see her near the mountain. And some times one could hear Lucy singing all alone