we are seven
...identity, which cannot be tainted even by death. The young child captures the true essence of existence itself and defies anyone that claims that her siblings are dead, engulfed in the blindness to see rationality, she knows more of death than a peer more than twice her age. The dead to her are as real as the living providing an emotive image, stretching her beliefs to full affect describing how she sings and knits to her dead brothers and sisters. She is explicit, unsentimental and has no illusions about death unlike a more prickly narrator. She is unable to say her siblings are dead and evidently uses euphemisms like “she went away” and “was forced to go” proving that to her that death is merely a word We are seven In “we are seven” the narrator speaks of an encounter with a young village girl, who appears to embody childish purity and enchantment. He enquires as to how many siblings she has, in response “she answered, seven we are” including two deceased that lie in the resident churchyard. The narrator unproductively endeavours to explain that they have died and that now there are only five, believing she is naïve or irrational in her disbelief. Throughout this poem Wordsworth uses two voices, which proves to be very effective in its purpose. The narrator’s ignorance to the child’s organic relationship with nature highlights the child’s lucid voice and definite explanations about her faith in eternal...