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We Are Seven
It is unusual to begin a poem with a dash, and it is easy to jump over the dash and straight to the words. Therefore, it's helpful to have our attention drawn to this dash so that we can think...
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We Are Seven
Several of Wordsworth's poems in the Lyrical Ballads are concerned with the wisdom of children and the failure of adults to understand them. In "We Are Seven," the simplicity of the vocabulary,...
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We Are Seven
In "We Are Seven," as in many of his poems, Wordsworth presents children as possessing a kind of primal wisdom which they gradually lose on growing up. In his arrogance, the speaker naturally...
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We Are Seven
In the poem "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth, the poet recounts a conversation he had with a little girl with curly hair. Wordsworth conversationally asks the girl how many siblings she has,...
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We Are Seven
In "We are Seven," Wordsworth uses the perceptions of an innocent young girl to convey an idea that the death of the physical body is not the end of a person's existence. The speaker runs into an...
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We Are Seven
Wordsworth had a distinct style in which he tried to inspire feeling in the reader by using visual markers to control how the reader read the poem. The poem “There was a Boy” in Lyrical Ballads...
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We Are Seven
This poem is a perfect example of what Wordsworth and Coleridge set out to do in their groundbreaking work of poetry, Lyrical Ballads. As the "Preface" to this work explains, what they aimed to...
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We Are Seven
Romanticism is a style of literature and visual art that was pioneered and became popular during the late eighteenth century and early- to mid-nineteenth century. However, the term "Romantic" can...
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We Are Seven
The main theme in "We Are Seven" is the subject of life and death. The speaker of the poem meets a rural child and asks her how many siblings she has. She claims, "Seven in all," implying that she...
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We Are Seven
William Wordsworth's poem, "We are Seven," is verse written in four-line stanzas about a discussion he has with a little child regarding the number of children in her family. Two things seem to...
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We Are Seven
The main idea of Wordsworth's poem "We are Seven" is that the dead still "count", even though they are no longer with us. In the poem, a man approaches an eight-year-old girl and asks her how many...
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We Are Seven
William Wordsworth’s poem “We Are Seven” is built around a contrast between the speaker’s view of death and the views held by a little girl. Among the differences in their perspectives are...
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We Are Seven
In this poem by William Wordsworth, the speaker meets "a little cottage Girl" and strikes up a conversation with her. He asks her the simple question one might routinely ask a child, "Sisters and...
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We Are Seven
This famous poem by Wordsworth was printed as part of Lyrical Ballads, a joint production of poetry, in which Wordsworth set out to present the natural as supernatural. This he achieves in this...
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We Are Seven
In the poem "We are Seven" by William Wordsworth, a little girl is seen playing in a churchyard. In the poem the poet attempts to ask the girl how many are in her family. She is a very energetic...
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We Are Seven
There are a number of poetic elements that can be commented upon in this excellent poem. I am going to refer to the rhyme and rhythm and how this relates to the content. One of the aspects of this...
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We Are Seven
Despite both poems being considered lyrical ballads, when read side-by-side, they appear to be very different from one another. Interestingly, they share a common theme: hope. How they portray...
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We Are Seven
The poem "We are Seven" is about an eight year old girl who is playing among the tombstones in a graveyard, and the poet observes how happily she plays and with how much energy she is invested in...
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We Are Seven
In the poem "We are Seven," Wordsworth clearly admires the little girl's faith in the things unseen. The little girl still feels a very physical and spiritual bond with a brother and a sister of...
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We Are Seven
The poet (or speaker) expresses his emotions and attitudes both directly through narration and indirectly through dialogue and action. The rhetorical question in the first stanza suggests that the...
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We Are Seven
The imagery used in William Wordsworth's "We are Seven," and Shakespeare's Sonnet 12 both deal with age and death. In Wordsworth's poem, the poet refers often to the images of youth regarding the...
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We Are Seven
The narrator in "We Are Seven" gets into a good-natured argument with the little maid he meets. The narrator asks the eight-year-old how many brothers and sisters she has, and she tells him, "We...
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We Are Seven
In the first stanza of "We Are Seven," a stanza composed by Samuel Coleridge and added to William Wordsworth's poem, Wordsworth and Coleridge seek to draw a contrast between the little girl's...
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We Are Seven
The narrator describes this little girl as eight years old, with thick, curly hair. She has "fair" eyes, which means light-colored eyes, probably blue or light green. The narrator then says they...
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We Are Seven
Not surprisingly, this is a complex question. It deals with death and Romanticism, two concepts that might be interlinked to an extent, but both of which are extremely difficult to articulate. In...
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We Are Seven
The poem "We are Seven" by William Wordworth was published in 1798, which makes it a transitional poem from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. As it is common knowledge, high birth...