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  Describe the conversation between the poet and the rustic girl in the poem "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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  What is Wordsworth's concept of childhood and death in "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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  Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth.
  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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  Why does the poet leave a dash in the first stanza of the poem "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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  What idea of death does Wordsworth convey in the poem "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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  Why does the poet leave a dash at the beginning of the first stanza of the poem?
  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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  How does "We Are Seven" relate to the "Preface" of the Lyrical Ballads?
  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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  What are the Romantic characteristics in "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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  What is the main theme of the poem "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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  In Wordsworth's "We are Seven," how is rhythm created in this poem as you read each line?
  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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  What is the main idea of the poem "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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  How does the speaker’s concept of death differ from the little girl’s in William Wordsworth's “We Are Seven”?   How does the poem use conventions of Romantic poetry to examine this difference in perspective?
  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 the...

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  Why does the girl say, ”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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  How is imagery used to support the theme in "We are Seven" by William Wordsworth?
  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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  In William Wordsworth's poem, what is the significance of the repetitive words in "We Are Seven?" "We are Seven," by William Wordsworth.
  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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  What poetic elements can you comment upon in "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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  Compare and contrast William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" with Percy Bysshe Shelly's "The Masque of Anarchy" in terms of writing style, form, and content.
  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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  In William Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven," how does the author create eeriness at the beginning of the poem?
  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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  In the poem "We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth, what does he admire in the child's perspective in this poem?
  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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  How does "We Are Seven" express the poet’s emotions and attitudes? How does he achieve this?
  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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  Explain the significance of the imagery in each poem: William Wordsworth's "We are Seven," and  Shakespeare's Sonnet 12.
  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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  Why was the poet puzzled to hear the little girl's answer?  
  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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  What does Wordsworth wish to imply by the words "feels its life in every limb?"
  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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  How can you describe the appearance of the girl in the poem "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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  How does the conversation which takes place in the ballad "We Are Seven" express a kind of blurred vision or an inability to see things clearly? 
  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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  Look at the year this poem was written, does the time period have any significance on why the young girl had two siblings die? William Wordsworths poem, "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...

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