Tragic vision is not a new subject to William Wordsworth particularly when we know that he has an experience in composing a tragedy called The Borderers. This tells us that his experience in presenting some tragic poem called "The Ruined Cottage" is not a surprise. Thus, of all the themes expressed by Wordsworth in this poem, the tragic vision perhaps remains the most dominant. It appears throughout the story of the poem. Its subject, though has been bewildering to the readers of Wordsworth, provokes an interesting flavour to their taste. Therefore, we notice the tragic vision is clear in this particular poem although he passed a long life in a quiet place among the mountains of the Lake District. Wordsworth's great narrative poems, like "Michael", "The Idiot Boy", and "The Ruined Cottage", are about people whose love for each other threatens to make them not see anything else. They are all ambivalent towards the value of living. Although there are differences in the structure, tone and plot, still they debate the paradox in the human being. In "The Ruined Cottage", which is centered on a broken home, Margaret, the heroine of the poem, is confined to a place which seems to exclude the possibilities of values which still survive. Yet she shows the sense of loss to which her vision of the world is reduced and makes her vision tragic in the sense that it is gloomy, sad and finally ends in the death of some of the characters especially the heroine. It is by no means the action of the story of Margaret that relates the tragic vision, but the atmosphere of the poem confirms the sad and gloomy attitude of Margaret as well. So "the desire for death in the relatively free form of blank verse appears through the poet's control of feeling and atmospherev (2) Generally this is an indication that feeling generates form when referring to the poem. K.R. Johnston also approves the tragic vision and suffering idea of the poem when he says that the story of Margaret, the purest of Wordsworth's art, uses inferences to the suffering stories successfully.