"Three Years she Grew in Sun and Flower" is one of
Wordsworth's Lucy poems, a group of poems that center on a girl who has passed away at a
young age. In this poem, Wordsworth imagines that a personified Nature has taken Lucy
away because of her loveliness. In taking her, however, Nature has imbued her with a
great deal of power over the world, specifically the natural landscape (the "sun and
flower") from which she came.
To understand these three
lines, it's helpful to look at them in the context of the entire third stanza. The
first three lines are easy enough: in her new state, Lucy will embody all of the energy
and "glee" of a fawn running and jumping across a field. These lines mean that Lucy now
inhabits all the joy in the world (certainly a comfort for the mourning speaker, in that
everywhere he looks and sees joy, he can imagine that it's Lucy). By contrast the two
lines you've asked about indicate that Lucy also inhabits all of the peaceful, quiet
moments of the world and of nature; for example, the "mute, insensate things" mentioned
might be the plants that Lucy is so closely tied to--Lucy embodies their silence and
calm. What's more, she even acts as a once-living "balm" to soothe them and induce
comfort and peace.
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