we are seven-by william wordsworth
We Are Seven by Wordsworth is a thinking poem. It is deep. It says that death does not diminish a family, nor a young girls love of her whole family. It says what Wordsworth believes that death is not an ending, but a transformation. This thought come alive by Wordsworth repeating the girl's words we are seven to his question of how many are in the family.
William Wordsworth was a great English poet. He is known for his contribution in romantic English literature. "We are Seven" is a poem which was published in 1798 in his "Lyrical Ballads". This poem is the best example of Wordsworth's great interest in nature. . William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850 ) In the Lake District was born the Great Nature Poet of all times, William Wordsworth on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth
The subject of this poem is a conversation between a man and a girl. The man plays the role of narrator who asks questions to a girl who serves as a maid in a cottage about her family and she tells him about her siblings. The poem begins with the introduction of that little girl and the question that what a child can know about the death.
Narrator describes about the girl with whom he met few years back. She was eight year old and her hair was curly and thick. Her eyes were very bright and her simple beauty made him delighted. He asks her about her siblings and she answers that there are seven brothers and sisters including her in the family.
The man asks her where her brothers and sisters are and she says that two are in Conway (a town), two are at sea and two are dead and resting in churchyard. She lives near the graveyard with her mother. The man gets confused with the answer of the little girl and asks her that if two of them are dead than how she can have seven siblings. He tells her that if two are resting in churchyard, then she has only five siblings.
But the little girl replies to him that the graves of her two siblings are green and can be seen from her house. Both of them are resting in
William Wordsworth was a great English poet. He is known for his contribution in romantic English literature. "We are Seven" is a poem which was published in 1798 in his "Lyrical Ballads". This poem is the best example of Wordsworth's great interest in nature. . William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850 ) In the Lake District was born the Great Nature Poet of all times, William Wordsworth on April 7, 1770, at Cockermouth
The subject of this poem is a conversation between a man and a girl. The man plays the role of narrator who asks questions to a girl who serves as a maid in a cottage about her family and she tells him about her siblings. The poem begins with the introduction of that little girl and the question that what a child can know about the death.
Narrator describes about the girl with whom he met few years back. She was eight year old and her hair was curly and thick. Her eyes were very bright and her simple beauty made him delighted. He asks her about her siblings and she answers that there are seven brothers and sisters including her in the family.
The man asks her where her brothers and sisters are and she says that two are in Conway (a town), two are at sea and two are dead and resting in churchyard. She lives near the graveyard with her mother. The man gets confused with the answer of the little girl and asks her that if two of them are dead than how she can have seven siblings. He tells her that if two are resting in churchyard, then she has only five siblings.
But the little girl replies to him that the graves of her two siblings are green and can be seen from her house. Both of them are resting in