WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

THE COMPLAINT OF A FORSAKEN INDIAN WOMAN

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet
who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English
literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth was Britain's Poet
Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850. Some major works are: Simon Lee,
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (or maybe
known by the name Daffodils). His last work was called The Prelude and it was
published the year he died.
What is the story he bases this poem on?
Native-American Indians used to have a strange, yet if we are to rationally look at it,
quite necessary custom: if it was the case for someone in the tribe to get ill, therefore
incapable of keeping up with the constant moving of his friends and family, the tribe
would leave the hurt one alone, basically in the middle of nowhere with some
supplies, so that if he or she happened to get better, they could catch up with the tribe.
In case their state did not improve, they would die alone as soon as the supplies were
over or wild animals would kill them.