In "We are Seven", the narrator is speaking with a child. The young girl and the narriator are discussing how many children are in her family. The little girl tells the narrator that there are seven children in her family; among the seven children she includes her brother and sister that "in the churchyard lie."
The child makes the adult view of the situation as incorrect. The child does not recognize death as a detachment or separation, nor does she see it as a loss; she rejects the logic of the adult who counts onl