Given the instead jaunty ballad rhyming construction and instead bantering gap stanza. we could presume that the Poet is indulging in little self-mockery at this impression. seen as pathetic in hindsight. Or given some of the other imagination used. such as the moon’s slow decline—which given its romantic intensions could typify the diminution and terminal of the Poet’s relationship with Lucy—and the analogy to a “rose in June” . we could presume that the Poet is reflecting on this incident with unhappiness sing his memories of Lucy.
This thought is farther supported by the subjects of the other “Lucy Poems” . viz. loss. Poems such as “Three Old ages She Grew in Sun and Shower” and “She dwelt among the pathless ways” showcase the Joy of the Poet in Lucy’s company and feelings of great sorrow at her death. While it is improbable that the adult females featured in the “Lucy Poems” are one and the same. it makes no difference to the common feelings expressed throughout the verse forms.
As stated above. the verse form is written in the manner of a lay ( as so all the “Lucy Poems” are. though none every bit evidently as “Strange tantrums of passion” ) . utilizing the Common linguistic communication of the people. as Wordsworth was frequently wont to make. This enables the reader to hold an immediate reaction to the work. by and large one of amusement at the “fond and contrary thoughts” of the Poet which is so bit by bit turned to a feeling of sorrow at the eventual decease as implied in the “Strange tantrums of passion” and made field in the other “Lucy Poems” and in the omitted last stanza from “Strange tantrums of passion”
I told her this ; her laughter visible radiation Is pealing in my ears: And when I think upon that dark My eyes are subdued with cryings This reaction. in a manner. shadows the Poet’s emotional response. In fact. it could be argued that there is a similar reaction from the reader to the Poet’s emotional province throughout. at first we are warned that this narrative is for “lover’s ear alone” puting us up for a romantic. if somewhat ludicrous. narrative.
As the Poet sets out to Lucy’s bungalow with ecstatic expectancy. we excessively anticipate the characteristic “reveal” of Wordsworth poesy. We at first portion in our reactions when the poet draws near the bungalow. as the Poet has his sudden disclosure ; while he is struck by desperation and fright we are temped to express joy at his apparently farcical idea. This place is so taken by the Poet himself one time he is safely in Lucy’s company but his “wayward thought” is proven all to shrewd. as reader and Poet both weep at Lucy’s death.
