William Wordsworth

I recently had quite a lot of time in which I was sitting around, so I decided to read over some of the earlier writers that we discussed. One of the writers that caught my eye was William Wordsworth. In particular, I found his poem We Are Seven to be the most intriguing his works that I read. I found that this poem was easy to read and follow along with because of the rhyme scheme that is used by Wordsworth. I like the fact that even though the poem is actually about the death of two children as viewed through the eyes of their sister. I really found the first stanza to be very interesting.

A simple child, dear brother Jim,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

I liked the way that Wordsworth speaks of the innocence of a child as it relates to the idea of death. I also enjoyed the way that William Wordsworth continues the idea that death has a different effect on children throughout each stanza. The girl in the poem seems to refuse to acknowledge that her brother and sister are gone from her, but she is not in denial. Rather, the small girl knows that her siblings are deceased, but she holds on to the fond memories that she has of each of them and therefore it seems to me that her brother and sister are still very much “alive” to her.