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Message

The keynote of this poem is immortality. Through the death of Lucy,
Wordsworth conveys the message that death is inevitable. Nobody is
beyond the reach of death.

But death does not imply a complete end as the dead person gets
integrated with nature and thus lives on. Although to the poet Lucy had
seemed a „thing‟ that could not be touched by the passing of time, „the
touch of earthly years‟, Lucy has breathed her last. She now lacks „motion‟
and „force‟, both ideas associated with positive human action. Now she
„neither hears nor sees‟; all those special marks of humanity are gone.

But Lucy has been absorbed into nature. She is now one with the rocks,

stones and trees and part of the greater pattern of the universe. After
death she has become immortal as she is now a part of the earth and its
routine rolling.

Brief Summary

This poem is about the death of a loved one and poet‟s feeling about his
beloved when he thinks about her death. This poem is a kind of elegy. Her
death put a great effect on him.

The poet says that her deep sleep has made his soul a seal. Her death has
made him so insensitive that he can‟t realize human fears.

Poem also describes his imagination about his beloved after death in the
second stanza. He seems to be immortalizing her death by saying that she
had no human concerns. Now earthly years were no longer a matter of
concern for her because they cannot make her older now.

But the poet also consoles himself with the thought that she has become a
permanent part of nature. In the last two lines the poet describes that she
is now under the surface of the earth revolving along with it. She moves in

this cosmos as the earth does on its axis in a daily routine. She is moving
with the rocks, stones and trees all the time.