Plot Summary?
We’re just getting started.

Add this title to our requested Study Guides list!

SuperSummary Logo
Plot Summary

We Are Seven

William Wordsworth
Guide cover placeholder
Plot Summary

We Are Seven

Fiction | Poem | Adult | Published in 1798

Before You Read

Reviews & Readership

Roundup icon

Review Roundup

Reviews for Wordsworth's We Are Seven generally praise its exploration of a child's perception of death, highlighting its emotional depth and simplicity. Some critics find the poem's repetition tedious and the adult narrator's disbelief at the child's perspective frustrating. Nonetheless, it remains celebrated for its poignant portrayal of innocence and mortality.

Who should read this

Who Should Read We Are Seven?

A reader who would enjoy William Wordsworth's "We Are Seven" appreciates Romantic poetry and themes of innocence and nature's beauty. Enthusiasts of William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner will find joy in Wordsworth's exploration of childhood and the sublime.

Recommended

Reading Age

13-18years
Continue your reading experience

SuperSummary Plot Summaries provide a quick, full synopsis of a text. But SuperSummary Study Guides — available only to subscribers — provide so much more!

Join now to access our Study Guides library, which offers chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive analysis on more than 5,000 literary works from novels to nonfiction to poetry.

Subscribe

See for yourself. Check out our sample guides:

Subscribe

Plot Summary?
We’re just getting started.

Add this title to our requested Study Guides list!


A SuperSummary Plot Summary provides a quick, full synopsis of a text.

A SuperSummary Study Guide — a modern alternative to Sparknotes & CliffsNotes — provides so much more, including chapter-by-chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and important quotes.

See the difference for yourself. Check out this sample Study Guide: