In this text I’m going to analyze Wordsworth’s poem ”She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways” to understand the poet’s message and make my personal considerations.

The title introduces a “she” who lives in a place not much attended. It also creates some expectations about her identity, about the place she lives, about the reason she stays there and people don’t go there. Through the title the reader can notice that the poet uses a particular and archaic language. “Dwelt” and “Untrodden” are words not so much used today.

The text is arranged into three quatrains of different length lines. Due to the layout this text might be a poetic text.

In the first stanza the poet introduces the main character, a girl who used to live near Dove’s springs, a river. Very few people knew and loved her, the reader can notice that by the last two verses of this stanza.

In the second quatrain he introduces girl’s beauty that is difficult to see. He exposes that using the metaphor of a violet that is difficult to be noticed near a mossy stone. He also uses the simile of a star’s fairness in a sky with only one star. The poet tries to highlight the peculiarity of her beauty. In this simile there’s the alliteration of letter “s” to emphasize the image.

In the last stanza the poet expresses girl’s death and that only few people knew that. He also make the reader know about girl’s name that was Lucy. Her death creates in the poet a big sense of pain. This pain makes him also sigh before admitting the changes her death provokes in his life.  

Moving now on with a more detailed connotative analysis the reader can hear that the reading creates a particular sound-effect, the echo. It has the function of communicating author’s feelings and thoughts. The language is formal and it is sometimes made of some particular and not so much used words such as “Maid” in the third verse. The use of these words increase reader’s attention and curiosity. The reader tends to understand al the ways the girl is described by the poet.

With this poem the author tries to explain how Lucy's death changed his feelings. He also wants to give a good image of the girl to other people who didn't know her. The main theme is the isolation, all the poem is characterized by the image of the girl living alone without anyone.

I found this poem interesting and full of meanings. It makes me think that it is important to know people and be polite with them so they would remember us in a good way.