In the poem "We are Seven", the narrator is asking a girl about her siblings. The girl says that there are seven of them. First Wordsworth describes the girl as a cottage girl. She is 8 years old, and her thick hair was clustered around her head. The description of a girl although seems like the girl is poor and not taken care of well, but the narrator describes her as a beautiful little girl with fair eyes. The narrator asks her about her siblings and asks, where they all were. The little girl replies that two were at Conway dwells and two were gone to sea. Then she said two were laying in the church yard under the church tree, her brother and a sister. And she also says that she lives in a church yard cottage with her mother. The narrator of the poem tries to persuade the little girl that her two dead siblings cannot be counted among them because they are no longer alive. But still, the little girl insists that these two be included. She says "Their graves are green, they may be seen" and then says "Twelve steps or more from my mother's door" (37-40). The girl tries to say that they are very close from the place she lived. She does not want to believe that they are gone forever. She has a belief that even though they are dead, they are still around her. In this poem, the girl is not denying to believe that her two siblings are dead, she is trying to tell the narrator that even though they are dead, she would still count them as her siblings. Because the girl says that their graves are green, and later in the poem explains how she lost two of her siblings. The narrator says, '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!' (65-69). The narrator has beliefs that the two deceased children are gone. However, the little girl believes that they still exist around her, maybe not in a physical presence, but she still feels that she can sense them.
