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Tone And Imagery In William Wordsworth's 'Lucy Gray'

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Subject: In William Wordsworth’s “Lucy Gray”, the speaker narrates the story about a young girl named Lucy Gray who disappears in a snow storm. Before she disappears, Lucy Gray spent much time alone and not a lot of people saw her face besides her parents. She becomes lost when she is instructed by her father to take a lantern into town for her mother. When Lucy does not return back home, her worried parents go looking for her and can only find her footprints in the snow leading up to a bridge. I think that by having her footprints in the snow, she is forever part of nature and not completely gone. Nature was her companion before she disappeared and now her spirit is a part of nature forever.

How: Both tone and imagery give “Lucy Gray” a

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