Walz asserts that the persona of the Lucy Poems evidences a schizoid personality who has molded the titular Lucy, whether in his imagination or in fact, into an object of obsessive love. Western society must stop enabling abusers and justifying their actions just because misogyny is Romantic does not make it romantic. Using these articles to examine Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems, I then apply the Poems as a lens to examine anti-woman abuse in 2014 and to prove that these vile actions are not only romanticized, but are also Romantic. Bruhn writes in “Margaret Atwood’s Lucy Poem: the Postmodern Art of Otherness in ‘Death by Landscape’” that Wordsworth’s use of Lucy as a plot device is pervasive, but redeemable from its misogyny. Walz provides insight into the basic nature and function of abusive, obsessive, and otherwise unhealthy male-female relationships. In his 2007 article, “Loving to Death: an Object Relations Interpretation of Desire and Destruction in William Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems,” Robert J. Although we balk at such outward displays of misogyny from the likes of Julien Blanc and Elliot Rodger, we support the media and culture that breed woman-haters like them. Dehumanizing treatment of women has longstanding Romantic aspects, which have heretofore made it socially acceptable. The questions are not new, but for the first time in recent memory the exchanges appear to be part of an ongoing dialog.
In 2014 several events occurred to provoke conversations into how and why men become abusers. William Wordsworth’s Lucy Poems and the Romantic Nature of Abuse
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