Analysis of William Wordsworth's Poem We Are Seven
William Wordsworth’s poem, We are Seven, is about a person talking to a young girl about her and her six siblings. Throughout the poem, the narrator gave the young girl a very difficult time when she persisted that simply because not all seven children were home together, or alive, they were still seven. The narrator was giving the young girl a hard time because he wanted her to remember and understand that just because she and her siblings are separated does not make them any less siblings.
Wordsworth says that two of the seven siblings are at Conway. In what way would two siblings being far from home make them be considered not siblings? Would that not be like saying to a child still in grade school that an older sibling who is at college is not really his or her sibling anymore? The narrator questions, “You say that two at Conway dwell, /And two are gone to sea, / Yet ye are seven! I pray you tell, / Sweet Maid, how this may be (Lines 25-28)?” This young girl responds, “Seven boys and girls are we; (line 30)”.
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It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you know you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do. It's about love and memory. It's about sorrow. It's about sisters who never write back and people who never listen.” -pg. 85
The poem begins with the word “We”, which is the only line in the poem that begins in this such manor, although the word “we” is repeated six more times throughout the poem. The “we” that I believe is represented at the beginning is the unity that comes from these seven friends. When y...
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