B. The will to survive through great difficulty
Wordsworth wrote five poems about Lucy, which center upon an imaginary girl of the English country side. Lucy lived in the country near the dive river where there was no poet to praise her and few people to understand her beauty.
I think he does it for peace through his journey in order for it not to get worse and by worse I mean by making the gods angry and bringing the worst to his journey.
The meaning of that is if you earn something it’s because of hard work and the effort you put in. While if you’re given something you didn’t have to put in any work because it was handed to you.