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posted by
WileyJohn
on December 25, 2016 at 1:25 PM
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Very interesting read. Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you and your family 
posted by
Chuck_E_Ibrahim
on December 24, 2016 at 9:08 AM
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Aba
Sending you and yours wishes for a very Merry Christmas, dear Aba! 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on December 24, 2016 at 12:36 AM
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Re: sam
You very rightly say 'it an be whom we choose and matters not who the poet had in mind'. That is its universality. That you so much sis Shelley.
posted by
anib
on December 23, 2016 at 8:22 PM
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I love your 'totally unattainable', which is so apt, and that you see yourself in it enhances the picture so much more, ha ha 
posted by
anib
on December 23, 2016 at 8:18 PM
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Re: Presta
So glad that you find it thought-provoking with so many possibilities. But it am afraid, in this case, I know just as much as you know or even probably less. One thing is for sure that Wordsworth was so Nature and human-loving a poet that in these he has not peer. Thank you again, my very dear Presta. 
posted by
anib
on December 23, 2016 at 8:16 PM
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I pictured my deceased sister as Lucy! I think that's the beauty of this one, it can be whom we choose and it matters not what the poet had in mind! Shelly
posted by
sam444
on December 22, 2016 at 8:23 PM
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of course my fancy wants it to be a gypsy girl. A girl impossibly beautiful full of spirit and totally unattainable.
posted by
Kabu
on December 22, 2016 at 12:21 PM
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Aba
Oh, boy, Aba dear, what a treasure you have given us here to ponder! Perhaps no one but Wordsworth will understand fully the Lucy poems. One would need to be a Wordsworth scholar, I dare say! I have read she may have been his Muse, his sister or those you mentioned. Could she have been a married lady, or an older widow woman who seemed youthful, a male (not likely), or simply his alter ego? He goes through the natural life cycles in the poems, quite deeply concerned about her death. Perhaps his own mortality confronts him with Lucy. One might even think Lucy WAS mortality. Good one, very thought-provoking, dear Aba. Thank you.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on December 22, 2016 at 1:18 AM
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