The Lucy Poems

What elements of solitude do you find in the poem Lucy Gray?

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In “She dwelt among the untrodden ways,” Wordsworth makes ample use of symbolism to create a portrait of Lucy. He portrays her as "a violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!” This figurative language contrasts with the more literal descriptions of her in the same poem as a woman who was unknown in life and unnoticed in death.