In the latter part of the Romantic period, Wordsworth, as part of his lyrical ballads, wrote “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal”. Although not initially intended, the poem eventually became part of a series labeled "Lucy Poems". The five poems, in one way or another, deal with loss, separation and their connection to nature. Recent analyzes have produced interesting results in the interpretation of the poem. Due to the ambiguity present in the lines, several interpretations have emerged. As it turns out, "A Sleep Made My Spiritual Seal" is not just a poem, as most people would have it, by a male speaker lamenting the loss of his love Lucy. What emerged instead is a creative tale about the intertwined lives of three characters, all stemming from the same eight poetic lines. The first and most conventional interpretation of "A Slumber" identifies the pronoun "She" in the third line. such as "Lucy", which is the subject of the other four poems in the collection. The male speaker (the speaker of a poem must be separated from the poet, in this case Wordsworth) describes this woman as whoever she is: mother, lover, sister or friend; is dead. The word “sleep” is a euphemism to suggest an easy passage to the afterlife. The last two lines of the first quatrain indicate the tranquility of his death and the narrator's consolation in being beyond the reach of human mortality. In the second quatrain, the impact of his death is starting to dawn on the speaker. In the first line, saying that she has “no movement…no strength” (line 5) she perhaps reflects on what she was like in life: a woman in constant motion, taking part in life, rather than sitting on the sidelines. Now, all that energy has ceased to... middle of paper... perhaps the Lucy of other interpretations. The woman, or Lucy, is dead. She has “no strength” (line 5) and the speaker has left her in a desolate landscape. His corpse subjected to the harsh elements of the earth's daily course. The third interpretation of the poem is the character of a sadistic murder which, when placed in the context of the previous two interpretations, the reader experiences the entire narrative. Works Cited Caraher, Brian G. Wordsworth's "Slumber," and Problematics of Reading. University Park: Penn State University Press, 1991. Print.Davies, Hugh Sykes. “Another new poem by Wordsworth.” Critical Essays XV(2) (April 1965): 135-161. Network. September 18, 2011.Wordsworth, William. "A sleep has sealed my spirit." The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. vol. D. New York: Norton, 2006. 276-77. Press.