We are seven (Poem with explaination)

We are seven (Poem with explaination)

This poem "We are seven" is written by very famous poet William Wordsworth.

About Author "William Wordsworth"

William Wordsworth

 

 

 William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in England.He had three brothers and one sister.Wordsworth's father encouraged him in his reading, and William was allowed to use his father's library. He had been taught to read by his mother and had attended a little school of Cockermouth. After the Cockermouth school, he was sent to a school in Penrith .Wordsworth started as a writer in 1787 when he published a sonnet in The European Magazine. He was very fond of travelling . 
"The Apocalypse of Nature"  published in london is a work  to which many of Wordsworth's philosophical sentiments are likely indebted.
He took a walking tour of  Europe.He toured the Alps , and France, Switzerland, and Italy.During his visit to France he enthralled with the Republican movement.In visited France he became enthralled with the Republican movement. The Reign of Terror estranged him from the Republican movement. 
 brothers and sisters.
He married to Mary Hutchinson in 1816.
He married four times in his life.He wrote a lengthy biographical work about him and Coleridge.It'sname was "poem to Coleridge".He did not published it in hislife but after his death his wife published it by the name 'Prelude"He got many awards in his life.He also got honourary degrees of doctor by Durham university and Oxford university. 
He was a great poet. He died on 23 April 1850.

Poem (We are seven)

A Simple Child, 
That lightly draws its breath, 
And feels its life in every limb, 
What should it know of death?

I met a little cottage Girl,
She was eight years old, she said; 
Her hair was thick with many a curl 
That clustered round her head. 

She had a rustic, woodland air, 
And she was wildly clad: 
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
 Her beauty made me glad. 

"Sisters and brothers, little Maid, 
How many may you be?" 
"How many? Seven in all,"she said
 And wondering looked at me.

 "And where are they? I pray you tell." 
She answered, "Seven are we; 
And two of us at Conway dwell, 
And two are gone to sea.

 "Two of us in the church-yard lie,
 My sister and my brother; 
And, in the church-yard cottage,
 I Dwell near them with my mother."
 "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."

Then did the little Maid reply, 
"Seven boys and girls are we;
 Two of us in the church-yard lie, 
Beneath the church-yard tree." 

"You run about, my little Maid,
 Your limbs they are alive;
 If two are in the church-yard laid,
 Then ye are only five." 

"Their graves are green, they may be seen,
" The little Maid replied, 
"Twelve steps or more from my mother's door,
 And they are side by side.

"My stockings there I often knit,
 My kerchief there I hem; 
And there upon the ground I sit, 
And sing a song to them.

 "And often after sunset, Sir, 
When it is light and fair, 
I take my little porringer, 
And eat my supper there.

 "The first that died was sister Jane; 
In bed she moaning lay, 
Till God released her of her pain;
 And then she went away.
 
 "So in the church-yard she was laid;
 And, when the grass was dry, 
Together round her grave we played, 
My brother John and I. 

 "And when the ground was white with snow, 
And I could run and slide, 
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side.

 "How many are you, then," said I, 
"If they two are in heaven,
 Quick was the little Maid's reply, 
"O Master! we are seven."
 But they are dead.

 those two are dead! 
Their spirits are in heaven!"
 'Twas throwing words away; for still 
The little Maid would have her will, 
And said, "Nay, we are seven!"             

Explaination (We are seven)

This simple little poem describes a meeting between the poet and a beautiful little woodland girl. Girl was very beautiful.She was only eight years old. she had curly hairs.Her face was very fair. she was enjoing life with happiness.The poet asks her how many brothers and sisters she has. 
She replies that they are seven sisters and brothers. On further inquiry she says that two of her brothers live at Conway, two are sailors, one sister and one brother lie in their graves in the churchyard beside their cottage. 
The poet tells her that if two of them have died then they are only five sisters and brothers. But the little innocent girl does not agree with him. She insists that they are seven brothers and sisters. The little girl does not see death as adult people see it, as the final divide between the living and the dead. 
Her dead brother and-sister have become an essential part of her memory and even death cannot make her forget them. Their green graves in a strange way strengthen her ties with them. After sun-set She plays by the graves and sings a song to them.She eat her food there. Her four brothers live very far from her but she does not feel their absence.
 The dead sister Jain and the dead brother John  are in a way less absent than the four brothers, for their graves are 'beside her cottage. She has not yet come to realize and accept the reality of death.  She counted her dead brother and sister among the living. In this poem the poet says that he tried to convince the girl that her one brother and one sister were dead. They were not living. Their souls were in heaven. So they were five and not seven. But it was useless to argue with that girl. She insisted that they were seven brothers and sisters.