Compare And Contrast We Are Seven And Ballad Of Birmingham

A comparison of “We Are Seven” and “Ballad of Birmingham
A child is often viewed as naïve, or perhaps even ignorant when it comes to the complexities of the world. Most feel as though a child couldn’t possibly fathom certain topics, or be able to ascertain a particular subject nearly as well as an adult could. For they have wisdom, wisdom that had been garnered and cultivated through age and years of experience, which a child would obviously be lacking in. Two ballads show such dismissal of children, but for very different reasons; them being “We Are Seven” by Williams Wordsworth and “Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randal.
The man from “We Are Seven” not only dismissed a young cottage girl, he became irate at her from her refusal to adhere to his wisdom on the matter of death. The man had felt the young girl should not be counting her two-dead sibling as part of her family anymore, as he reasoned their “spirits are in heaven” and that the two are no longer here. While conversely the young lass felt that she should, as she explains that there are still physically here and proceeds to explain where they are, and that she still interacts with them to a limited extent by knitting and the like near their graves. The man would respond to her …show more content…
While perhaps at face value the mother and man may share some commonalities, they are very different in there reasonings for disregarding the children. This also applies to the two girls and the scenarios in which they are in, but once again there are key differences between both reaction and situation. While the poems are very different from one another they still share one major thing in common. That being that both poems have an adult who dismisses a child. Perhaps the words of children shouldn’t be so quickly tossed away and disregarded simply because of their