Saturday, March 20, 2010

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

Hi dear students,

1-I want you to comment on the poem in the form of a discussion

2- I want you to dramatize the poem in the form of a power point, pictures that carry the lines or movimaker

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove,

A Maid whom there were none to praise

And very few to love:A violet by a mossy stone

Half hidden from the eye!--

Fair as a star, when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!

She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways

William Wordsworth (1799)

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

hi i am suzanne

Unknown said...

hi suzanne
how are you ?
I am not student
but I read the poem
its very nice
thank you
bye

Unknown said...

She dwelt among the untrodden ways" is a three-stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old. The poem is the best known of Wordsworth's series of five works which comprise his "Lucy" series, and was a favourite amongst early readers. It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss, and as an ode to the beauty and dignity of an idealised woman who lived unnoticed by all others except by the poet himself. The title line implies Lucy lived unknown and remote, both physically and intellectually. The poet's subject's isolated sensitivity expresses a characteristic aspect of Romantic expectations of the human, and especially of the poet's, condition.

According to the literary critic Kenneth Ober, the poem describes the "growth, perfection, and death" of Lucy. Whether Wordsworth has declared his love for her is left ambivalent, and even whether she had been aware of the poet's affection is unsaid. However the poet's feelings remain unrequited, and his final verse reveals that the subject of his affections has died alone. Lucy's "untrodden ways" are symbolic to the poet of both her physical isolation and the unknown details of her mind and life. In the poem, Wordsworth is concerned not so much with his observation of Lucy, but with his experience when reflecting on her passing.

Mariam Saud Al-jabry

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Unknown said...

It's a great narrative poem. It describe Lucy, a beautiful a pure but unknown girl. She never thought that anyone loved her or even care if she's alive or not. Although the narrator did but he was so shy to tell her the truth about his deep feelings.

Hana Fared Aldeen

Dr.Suzanne Wazzan said...

hi Mariam Saud Al-jabry

Thank you very much

For your excellent answer

Dr.Suzanne Wazzan said...

hi Hana Fared Aldeen

Thank you so much

for your nice answer

Dr.Suzanne Wazzan said...

hi matrix

Thank you

Unknown said...

"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" it ia a great poem consist of three-stanza
, it's written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old.
He describes a woman "Lucy" who lived in solitude near the source of the River Dove . Wordsworth uses simple language, mainly words of one syllable. all his poem about she , he portray her as a beauty and unknown girl, also as a girl did not expect any one to loved her and look after her .In The final stanza laments Lucy's early and lonesome death, which only he alone notices .
Finally , i liked this poem very much
and really the idea of the movie maker was so nice

Dr. suzanne
thank for you


Arwa al-ghamdi ...

Anonymous said...

She dwelt among the untrodden ways"
There is an emphasis on the isolated nature of Lucy’s life and her insignificance to the rest of the world

Her death goes by as unnoticed as her life, except by the poet. The simple outburst in the last line makes his anguish seem all the more poignant and real. His grief is effectively suggested through the use of that ordinary little word ‘difference’. To others, Lucy’s death meant nothing; to Wordsworth it meant everything.

Amal hassan alHadhali