Nay, we are Seven, What a Style!

“Nay, we are seven!” a famous last line in William Wordsworth poem, We Are Seven”. Wordsworth, known for his works about nature, “We Are Seven” is centered on the supernatural. Its theme is about innocence and how it regresses because humanity destroys it. The supernatural beliefs of the main character in the poem that her dead siblings still exist, subjected the poem to ridicule. Several revisions were made but the theme remains despite its initial criticisms. The poem has gained popularity since its release.

“We Are Seven” is about a little girl insisting on the narrator that there are seven boys and girls in the family contrary to her statement that some were already dead. Despite efforts of the narrator to make the child understand that deceased brothers and sisters cannot be counted anymore as they are no longer alive, the girl insisted, they are seven.

Without realizing, the narrator is forcing his beliefs on the child and trying insistently to change her conceptions instead of learning from the child. “We are Seven” is the embodiment of Wordsworth’s childhood’s innocence that he misses and gone forever.

Who would not appreciate the spectacular elegance of the language, simple and candid? The poet used a wide range of metaphors in his poems, from architectural to maritime, like the mind to “a mansion of memory”, and memory to “the anchor” of the poet’s “purest thought”.

In another poem, he describes himself as a “lonely cloud” and the daffodils to “a crowd of dancing people”. When reading the poem, “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” anyone can feel the gracefulness of the dancing daffodils and the cool breeze of the countryside.

In “We Are Seven”, the reader is left in an uncertain cognitive state, waiting for what will happen next, apprehensive to know in the end that the siblings are not really seven. The answer however, remains unanswered. Who could forget then the firm stand of a child who cannot in her innocence denies the presence of her siblings though they are gone forever?

Those who have read the poems of William Wordsworth will appreciate the style used in the poems, metaphoric phrases are laudable, the slow rhythmic movements of his verses are soul-penetrating and touching, simple and very natural.

Thematic concepts used impart divine influence on the mind and soul, be it natural or supernatural. He writes with passion and most of his poems are from his experiences, the reason why it is from the heart, full of feelings and emotions. The lyrics are magnificent, very descriptive of the images, places, events, pleasure and emotion, Wordsworth wants to convey to his readers.

Readers would feel as if they were transcended into another dimension, spirits fleeting like clouds traveling with the writer, feeling what the writer feels. In “We Are Seven,” the reader is left expectant of what will happen next, expecting mostly for the highlights or climax that never comes, what a style!

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