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Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition
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Genre
Reality competition
Presented by
Kevin Manno
Judges
Abby Lee Miller
Richy Jackson
Robin Antin (season 1)
Rachelle Rak (season 2)
Country of origin
United States
Original language(s)
English
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
22
Production
Executive producer(s)
Jeff Collins
Michael Hammond
Bryan Stinson
Sandi Johnson
Abby Lee Miller
Rob Sharenow
Gena McCarthy
Kimberly Chessler
Toby Faulkner
Adam Vetri
John Corella
Running time
42 minutes
Production company(s)
Collins Avenue Productions
Release
Original network
Lifetime
Picture format
480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
Original release
October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09) – November 19, 2013 (2013-11-19)
Chronology
Related shows
Dance Moms
External links
Website
Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition is an American dance reality competition series on Lifetime. The series encompasses twelve talented boy and girl dancers who are competing for the top spot and a scholarship to a prestigious dance academy.[1] The show is hosted by Kevin Manno, and judged by Abby Lee Miller, Richy Jackson, and Robin Antin. Season 2 premiered on September 3, 2013, with Rachelle Rak replacing Robin Antin in the judging panel.[2]
Contents
1 Episodes
1.1 Season 1 (2012)
1.2 Season 2 (2013)
2 Progress table
2.1 Season 1 (2012)
2.2 Season 2 (2013)
3 References
4 External links
Episodes[edit]
Season 1 (2012)[edit]
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0 "Casting Special" October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09) 1.00[3]
Meet 14 amazing dancers and their moms from around the country when they arrive in Los Angeles for the chance of a lifetime, the final audition of Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition. In an intense rehearsal, the dancers must learn three different routines in only two hours. The finalists also get a chance to meet their judges, including "Lead Judge" Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller, who is joined at the judges table by Robin Antin, founder of the Pussycat Doll's dance troupe, and celebrity choreographer Richard "Richy" Jackson. It all comes down to a double elimination and the pressure is on as the contestants must impress the judges if they want to make the cut.
1
1 "Let The Dancing Begin" October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09) 1.11[3]
When this life-changing competition kicks off the 12 finalists are tasked with their first live performance in front of judges including, Dance Moms' Abby Lee Miller, Robin Antin, founder of the Pussycat Doll's dance troupe and celebrity choreographer, Richard "Richy" Jackson. The dancers are split into trios and assigned routines with a "Hollywood" theme. As the contestants prepare throughout the week, the moms start sizing each other up. Alliances begin to form, but when one mom takes charge during rehearsal, the other moms realize that she could be trouble. Plus, one mother and daughter team reveal just how far they're willing to go to win the competition.
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2 "Unleash The Monsters" October 16, 2012 (2012-10-16) 0.89[4]
There are 11 dancers left and the theme for this week’s competition is "Monsters of the Night." The theme proves to be very fitting as one mom bares her claws and strikes at another, who is using her divorce as a way to get attention. After witnessing that mom make one of the girls break into tears, two of the other mothers join forces and conjure up a demon, unleashing on the other mom claiming she is being fake. Also one of the girls wins the group dance challenge and gets a solo, but there must be a full moon because she brings out the beast in her mother who refuses to listen to her daughter’s suggestions.
3
3 "Get Into Character" October 23, 2012 (2012-10-23) 1.11[5]
This week, the 10 remaining dancers are assigned duets based on "American Extremes." One of the classically trained dancers struggles during her hip-hop duet. Meanwhile, another contestant's role in the group dance forces her to share painful memories with her fellow dancers. Plus, one mother's meddling threatens to send a team home.
4
4 "In A New York Minute" October 30, 2012 (2012-10-30) 0.89[6]
The nine remaining dancers are thrilled when they learn the theme for this week's performance is "Broadway." But when two mothers at odds team up, everyone prepares for the worst. Meanwhile, one dancer struggles with the hip-hop trio and when the judges can't decide who should go home, that can mean only one thing — a dance-off.
5
5 "Sabotage" November 6, 2012 (2012-11-06) 0.98[7]
After winning the right to pick all the dance assignments for the week, one mother takes this week's skill, survival, to heart. Her strategy to sabotage the other dancers by putting them in their weakest areas creates discord amongst the mothers who feel betrayed by her actions. Meanwhile, one dancer struggles with her technique while ignoring her mother's corrections, which threatens to turn their dance into a real disaster. And, one pair must overcome their physical differences in order to become the perfect dancing machines.
6
6 "Dancing Through the Decades" November 13, 2012 (2012-11-13) 0.97[8]
With only seven dancers left in the competition, the pressure is at a fever-pitch. One mom is overwhelmed as she deals with competition demands as well as personal problems. Meanwhile, one dancer struggles with confidence issues as she tackles her very first solo of the competition.
7
7 "Happily Never After" November 20, 2012 (2012-11-20) 1.11[9]
It's Witches, Wolves and Wicked Stepmothers, this week when the dancers enter the land of fairy tales. But for one mother and daughter, their fantasy of being the ultimate dancer comes to an end. Meanwhile another dancer struggles with becoming the evil Stepmother. Plus an injury during rehearsal could spell disaster for another mother and daughter duo.
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8 "Bend it Like Abby" November 27, 2012 (2012-11-27) 1.05[10]
The final five dancers must be very flexible this week as they try to master dance styles from around the world. One dancer starts some drama that quickly goes global after she tells her mother she overheard other dancers saying she wished she had been eliminated. Another dancer struggles to connect with the history of the people that inspired her routine. And, the bottom two dancers must undergo a flexibility test to stay in the competition.
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9 "Cirque du Solos" December 4, 2012 (2012-12-04) 1.35[11]
With only four dancers remaining in the competition, the moms have to do whatever it takes to ensure their child makes it to the final three. This week the girls not only have to worry about perfecting their solos, but they're also doing a complicated and grueling circus inspired group dance.
10
10 "Dance for Your Life" December 11, 2012 (2012-12-11) 1.54[12]
Only three dancers remain for the grueling final round of this life changing competition. With $100,000 and a scholarship to the Joffrey School of Ballet in New York on the line, the three remaining girls must dance for their lives. But they're not alone. Former contestants and their moms make a surprise return for one last performance. It all comes down to the two-hour finale when Abby will reveal her first Ultimate Dancer.
Season 2 (2013)[edit]
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1 "Make It Count!" September 3, 2013 (2013-09-03) 1.28[13]
With 11 of the country's most promising young dancers selected from more than 1,000 national title holders, this season of Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition is back and bigger and better than ever. The performers are all vying for a $100,000 cash prize and a scholarship to the Young Dancers Program at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York. This week's theme is "Fame," as they gear up for their first performance in front of judges Abby Lee Miller, Broadway star Rachelle Rak and celebrity choreographer Richard "Richy" Jackson. Alliances begin to form and the dance floor heats up as the youngest contestant rubs one of the moms the wrong way.
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2 "Dare to Be You" September 10, 2013 (2013-09-10) 1.45[14]
With this week's competition theme as "Dare to be You," all the dances are inspired by Lady Gaga. Under the eyes of this week's challenge choreographer Richy Jackson, the young competitors struggle to embrace their own originality. The moms crack down hard on the dancers, encouraging them to "bring it" to the dance floor and one young dancer comes close to breaking down when she can't remember her routine. When one mom throws another mom under the bus, things get ugly.
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3 "Gods and Mortals" September 17, 2013 (2013-09-17) 1.23[15]
Abby is the dance goddess of the week and the dancers strive to attain dance immortality when the theme is "Gods and Mortals." There are nine dancers left and the performers in last week's bottom group struggle to prove that they deserve to be in the competition. The skill is "Power" and this week's challenge winner is Ally and she is allowed to make all the dance assignments and quickly discover holding the power isn't always easy. Melanie gets extreme when she overhears the others mothers talking about her daughter's weaknesses.
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4 "Vegas Show Stoppers" September 24, 2013 (2013-09-24) 0.91[16]
"Las Vegas" is this week's theme and the remaining dancers are tested with styles they've never encountered before. One mom finally snaps and takes on Abby after she gives one too many criticisms about her daughter. With the pressure of the surprise immunity reward building, tempers between the moms reach a boiling point.
15
5 "Anything Can Happen" October 1, 2013 (2013-10-01) 1.04[17]
Abby decides to mix things up with the theme for the week being "Unconventional." Anything can, and will happen, starting with the remaining dancers battling Abby in a martial arts challenge. The winner's mom gets to decide which dancers land in the bottom three, leading to new fights and some surprise allegiances. To complicate matters further, each dance involves a giant, and sometimes unpredictable, prop.
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6 "Broadway Backstabbers" October 8, 2013 (2013-10-08) 1.10[18]
Judge Rachelle Rak, a veteran of "The Great White Way," leads the challenge for the "Broadway" themed week and blows the kids and moms away with her sassy moves. The challenge winner's mom earns the animosity of the others by bragging about her child. The pressure is on for the dancer who chooses the first solo of the season.
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7 "Fairytales Come to Life" October 15, 2013 (2013-10-15) 1.06[19]
The reward for the challenge this week is a private lesson with Abby Lee Miller herself, which some of the kids desperately wants to win... while others would do anything not to. The pressure of the competition has the moms harping on their children and one mom even sells out her own kid to the judges for not working hard enough.
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8 "Wild West Showdown" October 22, 2013 (2013-10-22) 1.06[20]
The theme of the week is "Wild West". Animosity begins to build toward one dancer. A mother demands that her child get a solo.
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9 "Your Worst Nightmare" October 29, 2013 (2013-10-29) 1.08[21]
The theme of this week is "Nightmares. One mother tries to sabotage another with dance assignments. Some of the dancers begin to turn on their mothers.
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10 "Divas in the House" November 5, 2013 (2013-11-05) 1.23[22]
The children choose their dance styles. One unlucky dancer must perform a dance style that no one else wanted.
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11 "Down the Rabbit Hole" November 12, 2013 (2013-11-12) 1.28[23]
The week's theme is "Alice in Wonderland". One mother sabotages the other dancers. The dancers strive to make it to the final three.
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12 "Meet Abby's Newest Ultimate Dancer" November 19, 2013 (2013-11-19) 1.34[24]
Note: After the finale, Lifetime said AUDC will not be renewed for a third season, and had to cancel the series forever.
Progress table[edit]
A recap of both seasons.
Season 1 (2012)[edit]
Dancer
Episode and Challenge Winner
Casting
1
Elisabeth
2
Jordyn
3
Lexine
4
Amanda C
5
Hadley
6
Asia
7
Madison
8
Brianna
9
Amanda C
10
Madison
Brianna IN HIGH IN HIGH IN IN IN IN HIGH LOW WINNER
Madison IN HIGH IN IN LOW IN HIGH HIGH IN IN Second
Asia LOW IN LOW LOW IN HIGH IN LOW LOW HIGH Third
Amanda C IN IN IN IN HIGH IN IN HIGH IN OUT
Jordyn IN IN LOW IN IN LOW HIGH HIGH OUT
Hadley IN IN IN IN IN LOW LOW OUT
Lexine IN IN IN IN IN HIGH OUT
Elisabeth IN LOW IN IN LOW OUT
Zack IN IN HIGH HIGH OUT
Tua IN LOW LOW OUT
Kyleigh Jai IN IN OUT
Tessa IN OUT
Amanda K OUT
Nicole OUT
The dancer won Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer came in second place in Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer came in third place in Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer had one of the best performances of the evening based on the judges decision and advanced.
The dancer had immunity from the elimination.
The dancer advanced to the next episode without being in the bottom three or being one of the top performers.
The dancer finished in the bottom five/four and advanced.
The dancer finished in the bottom three and advanced.
The dancer finished in the bottom two and advanced.
The dancer was eliminated but was saved by one of the judges by using their Call Back Card.
The dancer was eliminated from Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer was eliminated in a previous episode and is no longer competing.

Season 2 (2013)[edit]
Dancer
Episode and Challenge Winner
1
Trinity
2
Gianna
3
Ally
4
Trinity
5
Trinity
6
McKaylee
7
Kalani
8
Trinity
9
McKaylee
10
Kalani
11
Gianna
12
McKaylee HIGH LOW HIGH HIGH LOW HIGH IN IN HIGH HIGH LOW WINNER
Gianna LOW HIGH LOW HIGH HIGH HIGH LOW IMMUNITY HIGH IN HIGH SECOND
Trinity LOW LOW HIGH IMMUNITY IMMUNITY HIGH IN HIGH SAVED(RR) HIGH LOW THIRD
Kalani HIGH HIGH LOW SAVED(A) HIGH LOW IN HIGH LOW LOW LOW OUT
JoJo IN IN IN LOW IN LOW HIGH LOW LOW OUT
Travis IN IN HIGH IN IN LOW IN OUT
Ally IN LOW IN LOW LOW IN OUT
Tyler IN IN IN LOW IN OUT
Haley LOW LOW IN HIGH OUT
Chloe IN SAVED(RJ) OUT
Sarina OUT
The dancer won Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer came in second place in Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer came in third place in Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer had one of the best performances of the evening based on the judges decision and advanced.
The dancer had immunity from the elimination.
The dancer advanced to the next episode without being in the bottom three or being one of the top performers.
The dancer finished in the bottom five/four and advanced.
The dancer finished in the bottom three and advanced.
The dancer finished in the bottom two and advanced.
The dancer was eliminated but was saved by one of the judges by using their Call Back Card.
The dancer was eliminated from Abby’s Ultimate Dance Competition.
The dancer was eliminated in a previous episode and is no longer competing.
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Lifetime Picks Up "Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition"". Retrieved December 1, 2012.
Jump up ^ ""Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition," Season Two Debuts September 3 on Lifetime". The Futon Critic. August 6, 2013.
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways
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"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.[1] 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.
According to the literary critic Kenneth Ober, the poem describes the "growth, perfection, and death" of Lucy.[2] Whether Wordsworth has declared his love for her is left ambivalent, and even whether she had been aware of the poet's affection is unsaid. However the poet's feelings remain unrequited, and his final verse reveals that the subject of his affections has died alone. Lucy's "untrodden ways" are symbolic to the poet of both her physical isolation and the unknown details of her mind and life. In the poem, Wordsworth is concerned not so much with his observation of Lucy, but with his experience when reflecting on her death.[3]
Contents
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1 Structure and style
2 Lucy
3 Place among the 'Lucy' series
4 Parodies
5 Notes
6 Bibliography
7 External links
Structure and style[edit]
William Wordsworth, author of "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways"
"She dwelt" consists of three quatrains, and describes Lucy who lives in solitude near the source of the River Dove.[4] In order to convey the dignity and unaffected flowerlike naturalness of his subject, Wordsworth uses simple language, mainly words of one syllable. In the opening quatrain, he describes the isolated and untouched area where Lucy lived, while her innocence is explored in the second, during which her beauty is compared to that of a hidden flower. The final stanza laments Lucy's early and lonesome death, which only he notices.
Throughout the poem, sadness and ecstasy are intertwined, emphasised by the exclamation marks in the second and third verses. The effectiveness of the concluding line in the concluding stanza has divided critics and has variously been described as "a masterstroke of understatement" and overtly sentimental. Wordsworth's voice remains largely muted, and he was equally silent about the poem and series throughout his life.[1] This fact was often mentioned by 19th century critics, however they disagreed as to its value. A critic, writing in 1851, remarked on the poem's "deep but subdued and silent devour."[5]
This is written with an economy and spareness intended to capture the simplicity the poet sees in Lucy. Lucy's femininity is described in the verse in girlish terms, a fact that has drawn criticism from some critics that see a female icon, in the words of John Woolford "represented in Lucy by condemning her to death while denying her the actual or symbolic fulfillment of maternity".[6] To evoke the "loveliness of body and spirit", a pair of complementary but opposite images are employed in the second stanza: a solitary violet, unseen and hidden, and Venus, emblem of love, and the first star of evening, public and visible to all.[2] Wondering which Lucy most resembled—the violet or the star—the critic Cleanth Brooks concluded that although Wordsworth likely viewed her as "the single star, completely dominating [his] world, not arrogantly like the sun, but sweetly and modestly". Brooks considered the metaphor only vaguely relevant, and a conventional and anomalous complement.[7] For Wordsworth, Lucy's appeal is closer to the violet and lies in her seclusion, and her perceived affinity with nature.[6]
Wordsworth purchased a copy of Thomas Percy's collection of British ballad material "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry" in Hamburg a few months before he began to compose the Lucy series. The influence of traditional English folk ballad is evident in the meter, rhythm, and structure of the poem. She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways follows the variant ballad stanza a4—b3—a4 b3,[2] and in keeping with ballad tradition seeks to tell its story in a dramatic manner.[8] As the critic Kenneth Ober observed, "To confuse the mode of the 'Lucy' poems with that of the love lyric is to overlook their structure, in which, as in the traditional ballad, a story is told as boldly and briefly as possible."[2] Ober compares the opening lines of She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways to the traditional ballad Katharine Jaffray and notes the similarities in rhythm and structure, as well as in theme and imagery:
There livd a lass in yonder dale,
And doun in yonder glen, O.
And Katherine Jaffray was her name,
Well known by many men, O.[2]
According to the critic Carl Woodring, "She Dwelt" can also be read as an elegy. He views the poem and the Lucy series in general as elegiac "in the sense of sober meditation on death or a subject related to death", and that they have "the economy and the general air of epitaphs in the Greek Anthology ... if all elegies are mitigations of death, the Lucy poems are also meditations on simple beauty, by distance made more sweet and by death preserved in distance".[9]
One passage was originally intended for the poem "Michael"–"Renew'd their search begun where from Dove Crag / Ill home for bird so gentle / they look'd down / On Deep-dale Head, and Brothers-water".[10]
Lucy[edit]
Wordsworth wrote his series of "Lucy" poems during a stay with his sister Dorothy in Hamburg, Germany, between October 1798 and April 1801.[11] The real life identity of Lucy has never been identified, and it is probable that she was not modeled on any one historical person.[12] Wordsworth himself never addressed the matter of her persona,[11] and was reticent about commenting on the series.[1] Although a great detail is known of the circumstances and details of Wordsworth's life, from the time he spend during of his stay in Germany comparatively little record survives. Only one known mention from the poet that references the series survives, and that mentions the series only, and not any of the individual verses.[13]
The literary historian Kenneth Johnson concluded that Lucy was created as the personification of Wordsworth's muse,
and the group as a whole is a series of invocations to a Muse feared dead. As epitaphs, they are not sad, a very inadequate word to describe them, but breathlessly, almost aware of what such a loss would mean to the speaker: 'oh, the difference to me!'[14]
Writing in the mid-19th century, Thomas De Quincey said that Wordsworth,
always preserved a mysterious silence on the subject of that 'Lucy', repeatedly alluded to or apostrophised in his poems, and I have heard, from gossiping people about Hawkshead, some snatches of tragic story, which, after all, might be an idle semi-fable, improved out of slight materials.[15]
Pencil drawing of William's sister Dorothy Wordsworth in later life.
Lucy's identity has been the subject of much speculation,[16] and some have guessed that the poems are an attempt by Wordsworth to voice his affection for Dorothy;[17] this line of thought reasoning that the poems dramatise Wordsworth's feelings of grief for her inevitable death. Soon after the series was completed, Coleridge wrote, "Some months ago Wordsworth transmitted to me a most sublime Epitaph / whether it had any reality, I cannot say. - Most probably, in some gloomier moment he had fancied the moment in which his Sister might die."[18]
Reflecting on the importance and relevance of Lucy's identity, the 19th-century literary critic Frederic Myers said, "Here it was that the memory of some emotion prompted the lines on Lucy. Of the history of that emotion, he has told us nothing; I forbear, therefore, to inquire concerning it, or even to speculate. That it was to the poet's honour, I do not doubt; but who ever learned such secrets rightly? Or who should wish to learn? It is best to leave the sanctuary of all hearts inviolate, and to respect the reserve not only of the living but of the dead. Of these poems, almost alone, Wordsworth in his autobiographical notes has said nothing whatever."[19] According to Karl Kroeber,
Wordsworth's Lucy possesses a double existence, her actual, historical existence and her idealised existence in the poet's mind. The latter is created out of the former but neither an abstraction nor a conceptualisation, because the idealised Lucy is at least as "concrete" as the actual Lucy. In the poem, Lucy is both actual and idealised, but her actuality is relevant only insofar as it makes manifest the signifiance implicit in the actual girl.[20]
Lucy is thought by others to represent his childhood friend Peggy Hutchinson, with whom he was in love before her early death in 1796—Wordsworth later married Peggy's sister, Mary.[21]
Place among the 'Lucy' series[edit]
Main article: The Lucy poems
Wordsworth established himself, according to the critic Norman Lacey, as a 'poet of nature' in his volume Lyrical Ballads in which "She Dwelt" first appeared.[22] Early works, such as Tintern Abbey, can be seen as an ode to his experience of nature (though he preferred to avoid this interpretation), or as a lyrical meditation on the fundamental character of the natural world. Wordsworth later recalled that as a youth nature once stirred in him, "an appetite, a feeling and a love", but by the time he wrote "Lyrical Ballads", it evoked "the still sad music of humanity".[23]
The five 'Lucy' poems are often interpreted as representing both his apposing views of nature and a meditation on natural cycle of life.[24] "Strange fits" presents "Kind Nature's gentlest boon", "Three years" its duality, and "A slumber", according to the American literary critic Cleanth Brooks, the clutter of natural object.[25] In Jones view, "She dwelt", along with "I travelled", represents its "rustication and disappearance".[24]
Parodies[edit]
"She dwelt.." has been parodied numerous times since it was first published. In part, parodies of earlier works were intended to remark on the simplification of textual complexities and deliberate ambiguities in poetry, and on the way many 19th-century critics sought to establish a 'definitive' reasonings. According to Jones, such parodies sought to comment in a "meta-critical" manner, and to present an alternative mode of criticism to the then mainstream mode.[26]
Among the more notable are those by Hartley Coleridge ("A Bard whom there were none to praise, / And very few to read") in 1834, and Samuel Butler's 1888 murder-mystery reading of the poem. Butler believed Wordsworth's use of the phrase "the difference to me!" was overtly terse, and remarked that the poet was "most careful not to explain the nature of the difference which the death of Lucy will occasion him to be ... The superficial reader takes it that he is very sorry she was dead ... but he has not said this."[1]
These parodies were intended to question definitive interpretation of the verse, and highlight its indeterminacies.[27]
Notes[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b c d Jones, 4.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e Ober, Kenneth; Ober, Warren. "Samuil Marshak's Translations Wordsworth's "Lucy" Poems". Germano-Slavica, January 2005.
Jump up ^ Slakey, 629.
Jump up ^ Wordsworth knew three rivers of that name; in Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Westmorland, but each could equally be the setting for the verse.
Jump up ^ "Poetry, Sacred and Profane". Nottinghamshire Guardian, October 30, 1853.
^ Jump up to: a b Woolford, John. "Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti and the Wordsworthian Scene of Writing". Wordsworth Circle 34.1, 2003.
Jump up ^ Brooks, Cleanth, 729-741.
Jump up ^ Durrant, Geoffrey. "William Wordsworth". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. 61.
Jump up ^ Woodring, 44, 48.
Jump up ^ Hartman 1934, 134–42
^ Jump up to: a b Rolfe, i.
Jump up ^ Murray, 85.
Jump up ^ Jones, 6.
Jump up ^ Johnson, 463.
Jump up ^ Davies, Hugh Sykes. "Lake Reminiscences". 247.
Jump up ^ Abrams, M.H. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2A, "The Romantic Period". (7th ed.). New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.
Jump up ^ Coleridge was the first to raise the possibility that Lucy may represent Dorothy
Jump up ^ Johnson, 464.
Jump up ^ Myers, Frederic William Henry. "Wordsworth". Project Gutenberg. 33. Retrieved on 7 October 2007.
Jump up ^ Kroeber, 106-107.
Jump up ^ Cavendish, Richard. "Death of Dorothy Wordsworth: January 25th, 1855". History Today, January 2005. 55.
Jump up ^ Lacey, 1.
Jump up ^ Lacey, 3.
^ Jump up to: a b Jones, 190.
Jump up ^ Brooks, 736.
Jump up ^ Jones, 95
Jump up ^ Davies, Damien Walford. "Lucy's Trodden Ways". Oxford University Press, 1995.
Bibliography[edit]
Brooks, Cleanth. Irony as a Principle of Structure. In Zabel, Morton D. (ed): Literary Opinion in America. New York: Harper, 2nd edition, 1951.
Kroeber, Karl. The Artifice of Reality: Poetic Style in Wordsworth, Foscolo, Keats, and Leopardi. Madidon: University of Wisconsin, 1964.
Johnston, Kenneth. The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy. W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. ISBN 0-393-04623-0
Jones, Mark. The 'Lucy Poems': A Case Study in Literary Knowledge. Toronto:The University of Toronto Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8020-0434-2
Lacey, Norman. Wordsworths View Of Nature. Cambridge: University Press. 1948.
Murray, Roger N. Wordsworth's Style: Figures and Themes in the Lyrical Ballads of 1800. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
Rolfe, William J. William Wordsworth, Select Poems of William Wordsworth. New York: American Book, 1889.
Slakey, Roger L. "At Zero: A Reading of Wordsworth's 'She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways'". Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. Volume 12, issue 4, Autumn, 1972. 629–638.
Woodring, Carl. Wordsworth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
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"Anecdote for Fathers"
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The Matthew poems
"Michael, a Pastoral"
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The Lucy poems
"I travelled among unknown men"
"London, 1802"
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
"Resolution and Independence"
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"The World Is Too Much with Us"
"Character of the Happy Warrior"
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