![]() ![]() ![]() We Are Seven narrates a conversation between an adult and a “little cottage girl”, who refuses to not count her dead siblings among her family members. Traditionally it contains four line stanzas and is set to music. As the sestet provides the resolution of the issue, Wordsworth might be suggesting that humility is the apt starting step for the English society to revive itself.Ī ballad is a poem that tells a story. Wordsworth ends the poem by complimenting the humble nature of Milton perhaps suggesting how this quality is to be appreciated the most. Moreover, he considers Milton’s writing to be deep and insightful as ‘the sea’ and precise and free like ‘the naked heavens’. Wordsworth begins the sestet by praising Milton, comparing his soul to a star. He calls Milton to return from the dead and endow to the present generation noble qualities like ‘virtue’ and ‘freedom’. Wordsworth refers to the present English society, including himself, as selfish. England has become stagnant as a swamp (‘fen’) with the church (‘altar’), the military (‘sword’), the literary (‘pen’), the household (‘fireside’) and the economy not being in keeping with England’s glorious past. He believes that England is in dire straits and needs its former great poet to restore its past glory. Wordsworth begins this sonnet by wishing that John Milton, the famous 17th century English poet who wrote Paradise Lost, was alive. Analysis:-Ī Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave (“first eight lines”), which introduces a problem and a sestet (“last six lines”), which provides some kind of resolution. So didst thou travel on life's common way, Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart: ![]() Have forfeited their ancient English dowerĪnd give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,įireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Poem:- Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: ![]()
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