Stanza explanation of Lucy gray

Answer 1

She died in the sonwy stormy night, while she was on the way to town to look her mother.

Answer 2

oft i had heard of lucy gray

and when i crossed the wild

i chanced to see at break of day

the solitary child

no mate mo comrade lucy knew

she dwelt on a wide moor

the sweetest thing that ever grew

beside a human door

Answer 3

The poem was inspired by Wordsworth being surrounded by snow and Dorothy's, his sister, memory of a real incident that happened at Halifax. Wordsworth explained the origins when he wrote, "Written at Goslar in Germany in 1799. It was founded on a circumstance told me by my Sister, of a little girl who, not far from Halifax in Yorkshire, was bewildered in a snow-storm. Her footsteps were traced by her parents to the middle of the lock of a canal, and no other vestige of her, backward or forward, could be traced. The body however was found in the canal." Lucy Gray was first published in Volume 2 of the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.