William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met within the area of Goodrich Castle [in the Wye Valley north of Tintern Abbey] in the year 1793” [Wordsworth’s note]. Wordsworth also tells us that he composed the last line of the last stanza first, and that Coleridge contributed the initial stanza.
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People speak and behave in conscious life without knowing that their words and acts derive from a set of unconscious suppositions. These constitute a knowledge, made up of fictive and subjective interpretations of the world that are neither relative, haphazard, nor random, but are over determined by the concrete signifying material built up in the family of one's childhood. (Essay 92) By reading the poem, we come to realize that the family of the little girl seems to be divided. Everybody seems to be somewhere doing something. Nowhere in the poem, can we see any trace of the father. Nothing specific is said about the mother. The little girl seems to be very lonely and on her own. The trauma of losing two siblings, implies that her family whether deliberately or not left her to be on her own to make sense out of the world. Her statement, ‘we are seven’, suggests her crave for unity, which she has made possible through discourse of language.
Pleasure becomes displeasure because repetition refers to the loss of a pleasure. Pleasure remains, however, as a fixation in the memory and gives body to fantasy. Thus, pleasure retrieved via repetition that constitute fantasies of eradicating loss. (Essay 89) The lonely little girl, seems to live by the memories of her lost siblings. She acts as if they are still alive and as the man asks her questions, she refers to her memories of her lost siblings a
People speak and behave in conscious life without knowing that their words and acts derive from a set of unconscious suppositions. These constitute a knowledge, made up of fictive and subjective interpretations of the world that are neither relative, haphazard, nor random, but are over determined by the concrete signifying material built up in the family of one's childhood. (Essay 92) By reading the poem, we come to realize that the family of the little girl seems to be divided. Everybody seems to be somewhere doing something. Nowhere in the poem, can we see any trace of the father. Nothing specific is said about the mother. The little girl seems to be very lonely and on her own. The trauma of losing two siblings, implies that her family whether deliberately or not left her to be on her own to make sense out of the world. Her statement, ‘we are seven’, suggests her crave for unity, which she has made possible through discourse of language.
Pleasure becomes displeasure because repetition refers to the loss of a pleasure. Pleasure remains, however, as a fixation in the memory and gives body to fantasy. Thus, pleasure retrieved via repetition that constitute fantasies of eradicating loss. (Essay 89) The lonely little girl, seems to live by the memories of her lost siblings. She acts as if they are still alive and as the man asks her questions, she refers to her memories of her lost siblings a