<P> `` She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways '' is a three - stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old . The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800 , a volume of Wordsworth 's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement . The poem is the best known of Wordsworth 's series of five works which comprise his `` Lucy '' series , and was a favorite amongst early readers . It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss , and as an ode to the beauty and dignity of an idealized woman who lived unnoticed by all others except by the poet himself . The title line implies Lucy lived unknown and remote , both physically and intellectually . The poet 's subject 's isolated sensitivity expresses a characteristic aspect of Romantic expectations of the human , and especially of the poet 's , condition . </P>
<P> `` She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways '' is a three - stanza poem written by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth in 1798 when he was 28 years old . The verse was first printed in Lyrical Ballads , 1800 , a volume of Wordsworth 's and Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's poems that marked a climacteric in the English Romantic movement . The poem is the best known of Wordsworth 's series of five works which comprise his `` Lucy '' series , and was a favorite amongst early readers . It was composed both as a meditation on his own feelings of loneliness and loss , and as an ode to the beauty and dignity of an idealized woman who lived unnoticed by all others except by the poet himself . The title line implies Lucy lived unknown and remote , both physically and intellectually . The poet 's subject 's isolated sensitivity expresses a characteristic aspect of Romantic expectations of the human , and especially of the poet 's , condition . </P>
who is the speaker in she dwelt among the untrodden ways
who is the speaker in she dwelt among the untrodden ways
the poet
the poet