Analysis of "She dwelt among the untrodden ways"

• Ø Right from the title, I understood that the content of the poem may deal with a girl who spended her life in solitud, in an anonimous way. The word that captured my attention is "untrodden": it is an adjective that means solitary, not patronized by people. I expect the poem may deal with the feeling of solitude that a woman feels deep inside herself. Another word that make me think about is "dwelt": it is a verb, in the form of the simple past, that means live. That let born in me two hyphotesis: or the woman, now, does not keep on living among untrodden ways, or she died.
• Ø In the first stanza the poet introduces the figure of the womwn, that stayed among untrodden ways, therefore the theme of solitude starts to appear. For this girl there is noone who she can love or praise. Nobody, because she is alone, unknow, she lives emarginated, isolated.
• Ø In the second part of the poem, William Wordsworth compared the girl with an half hidden violet and with a star, beautiful when it shines alaone in the sky. Also these two comparison underline the isolation of the girl, who is "half hidden", that means nobody could really know her; she is receding, mysterious.
• Ø In the last stanza the poet reveal us the girl is dead, and although few people know this fact, this loss make difference to him. William call the girl with her name, Lucy: this, in my opinion, proves that she was important for him, that he suffers because of her death, that she was not "unknown" for him. She makes difference in the poet's life.
• Ø The poem ends persuading us to image how Lucy makes difference in the poet's life.