![]() This is the color of white but a little off for imperfect innocence as the district’s troubles spill over to her. Maude Ivory is named for “Maude Clare” and the ivory of a piano. A thorn grows on his grave and a rose on hers, linking them forever. However, she haughtily refuses, pointing out how he has slighted her. In the ballad, a rich young man pleads for her love on his deathbed. It’s also a depressing time of oppression and starvation she must fight to survive, echoing names like Gale and Everdeen (Evergreen).īarb Azure is named for “Barbara Allen” and the serene color of the sky. Lucy Gray takes the second name from winter - a parallel to Snow, emphasizing their connection. Poor ghost girl singing away with her birds.” No matter - snow had been the ruination of them both. Was she alive, dead, a ghost who haunted the wilderness? Perhaps no one would ever really know. This echoes Snow’s final thoughts of her: “Lucy Gray’s fate was a mystery then, just like the little girl who shared her name in that maddening song. Over rough and smooth she trips along, And never looks behind And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind. Yet some maintain that to this day She is a living Child, That you may see sweet Lucy Gray Upon the lonesome Wild. “Lucy Gray” indeed sees the girl die and haunt the forest like a ghost, merged with nature and filled with its energy. Her last name, Baird, suggests her bardic profession. Lucy Gray is for the Wordsworth poem, as described. These ballads are English and Scottish, nodding to the old world of books and traveling players (several are Child ballads) as well as the Celtic culture that contrasts with the Roman one. Within Lucy Gray Baird’s “Covey” (a flock of birds), as is mentioned in the book, all are named for a ballad and a color (several double as jewel colors, suggesting preciousness).
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