In Wordsworth's "We Are Seven," Wordsworth seems to make it look as if the little girl doesn't understand there are only five and not seven children, due to the deaths of two siblings. The adult is failing to grasp some romantic elements such as the child's simplicity/innocence of death or her downright stubbornness towards the adult's meddling remarks.
The adult fails to understand that the girl does not fully understand the deaths of her siblings. In the first line of the poem, the little girl is described as a "simple child." As we go further into the poem, it seems the adult has forgotten that he is conversing with a child, not rather with an adult. He does not realize that maybe this child's
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