We Are Seven Themes

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: 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...

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...