Poems For People Who Hate Poetry

Send us a textThis is the 4th of the "Lucy" poems by William Wordsworth. In this one we get another poem about Wordsworth's view of death. Wordsworth kicked off the English Romantic movement. He, like the romantics that proceeded him, was heavily focused on the internal world of humans. As the French Romanticist, Victor Hugo put it, "There is one thing grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one thing grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul." The lucy poems taken as a whole are very helpful in understanding how unique this viewpoint really is. Why do we have the thoughts in our heads that we do? Where do those thoughts come from? What associations do we make in moments of high passion and why those associations? And, most importantly, how does the external world affect our internal one?If you have not listened to the other episodes, then listen to this one! I give a brief overview at the beginning of the key points. ---Three Years She Grew in Sun and Showerby Wi