I think the most interesting person we have studied this semester has been William Wordsworth. He wrote a bunch of poems about a girl name Lucy throughout his writing career. Lucy’s form took many shapes in his poems. In some poems she was a ghost. In others she was real girl. While sometimes she was this idea. My question and what makes him so interesting is why Lucy? Why did he consistently use the same name? Was Lucy someone he knew as a boy? People say she was just an idea, nothing more than that. This I will not be satisfied with. I think a brilliant literary mind such as Wordsworth would be able to come up with more names than just one. I mean if you have to select just one name to be Lucy is a pretty wise choice. It is not a boring name, but it is just one name. It just bugs me. He had to know someone named Lucy during his life. I think it is a girl he knew. It has to be. Why would he right so much about her if she was not a real person. He must have met her when he was young. She was his first love. She was his only love. That is why he married a simple childhood friend and not someone he loved. He was in love with Lucy. He did not love his wife. How could he? He was miserable his whole life because he was longing for his true love that he could not have. Throughout his youth he took long walking tours around Europe. I would equate this to a backpacking trip across Europe that college students occasionally take now after they finish high school. He must have met this girl Lucy on this tour. They must have fallen in love on this trip. He asked her to come with him, and she would not go with him. He begged and begged, but to no avail. He stayed in her town for months but she forced him to leave. She probably had a husband or someone she love that was “seeking her hand”. He came looking for William. Her husband was going to kill him. That must be why William denies that Lucy is a real person. He does not want to die. He knew if the husband found him, he would surely be killed. So he hid. He was afraid for his life. William maybe regretted this choice. It is possible he wondered throughout his life: It would be better to be dead, than without her. It is actually quite sad that he let her get away. At least he thinks she got away. Maybe he is like the great Gatsby and Lucy is like Daisy Buchanan. William has always wanted Lucy but can never have her. Maybe he went back and found her and had an affair. This story, too, ends in tragedy but no that of The Great Gatsby. William is not murdered like Gatsby but he wishes he was.