We Are Seven Themes
Death
Sorry to be such a downer, nerds, but at its heart "We Are Seven" is all about death. More specifically, it's about the death of children. (Got those tissues ready? Good). The cool thing about the...
Youth
Youth: is it a blessing or a curse? Are the young silly, naïve, and dumb? Or is there a sort of wisdom in youth? "We Are Seven" grapples with all of these questions as it stages an argument betwee...
Family
We are fam-ily. Or, as Wordsworth's puts it: "we are seven." But what does family mean, exactly? How do we define the sorts of blood relationships that so often define us? Wordsworth's poem asks th...