In the latter part of the Romantic period, Wordsworth, as part of his lyrical ballads, wrote “A Sleep Made My Spiritual Seal.” Although it was not initially intended, the poem eventually became part of a series called "Lucy Poems." All five poems address, in one way or another, loss, separation, and their connection to nature. Recent analyzes have yielded interesting results in the interpretation of the poem. Due to the ambiguity present in the lines, various interpretations have emerged. It turns out that “A Sleep Sealed My Mind” is not just a poem, as most people would say, about a male speaker lamenting the loss of his love Lucy. Instead, what emerged was a creative tale about the intertwined lives of three characters, all from the same eight poetic verses. The first, and most conventional, interpretation of "A Slumber" identifies the pronoun "She" in the third line. like “Lucy,” which is the subject of the other four poems in the collection. The male speaker (the speaker of a poem must be distinct from the poet, in this case Wordsworth) describes how this woman, whoever she is: mother, lover, sister or friend; died. The word “sleep” is a euphemism to suggest an easy passage to the afterlife. The last two lines of the first quatrain emphasize the tranquility of her death and the narrator's consolation that she is beyond the reach of human mortality. In the second quatrain, the impact of his death begins to be felt on the speaker. In the first line, by saying that she has "no movement... no force" (line 5), he is perhaps reflecting on what she was in life: a woman in constant movement, a woman who participated to life, rather than sitting on the ground. on the sidelines. Now all that energy has stopped being... 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 daily course of the earth. 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 entirety of the narrative. Works Cited Caraher, “Slumber” by Brian G. Wordsworth and the problem 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. Internet. September 18, 2011. Wordsworth, William. “A sleep has sealed my spirit.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt et al. Flight. D. New York: Norton, 2006. 276-77. Print.