Lower Exoticism through Wordsworth's "We Are Seven"

Romanticism sought natural beauty to respond to the industrial boom that was modernizing the Western world. But that not only meant that people focused on searching for beauty on the horizon or searching for the meaning of life in the mountains, but it also meant that literature, art, and beauty became more democratic. This meant that the poor life of the working class was complicated, and they too were able to express themselves poetically. became one of the pioneers in trying to consolidate the connections between in his poem We Are Seven, there is a class he marker that the speaker of the poem identifies in the first stanza, marking the themes of the poem and even making them exotic. The first line of the verse sets the tone by starting with "simple kid." This immediately conveys an image in the reader's mind as to how the familial and domestic nature should be understood in poetry. Another class marker is when the speaker describes the little "cottage girl" in stanza 2. These markers help outline how the cryptic moments of the poem are intrinsically linked to family class status. The girl looks puzzled by what the title of the poem suggests. That is, she believes she has seven people living in her family when in reality some of the members have died. There seems to be conflict over the blissful ignorance of the 'cottage' girls due to the 'simple' method - which seems to rule out the idea of ​​aggression.

David Caspar Friedrich's painting, "Abbey in the Oak Woods" is a romantic period painting that presents the idea of ​​nature and civilization, but it is also a negotiation between these two concepts of how to coexist. in. It reminds me of the way she says "the two of us in the churchyard" in stanza six when referring to their birthplace, described as "blue" in stanza ten. It seems like a deliberate way to assign a bright color like green to a burial ground, apparently to hold the dead. There seems to be a double point here that is very similar to in the picture, you see dead trees and an unfinished building because it has been abandoned. However, we continue to make the natural world work - the painting makes it come to life as a way to accept the passing of things as part of a cycle. Although the picture is a bit more confusing, it certainly parallels the poem about how death always seems to move with nature, and ultimately, man.

The duality of death and life seems a bit mysterious when attributed to the status of the poor. It may have to do with the idea of ​​not having ornate tombstones like those of the aristocracy, as Wordsworth alluded to in another poem, but it also has to do with the way romantics like Wordsworth and Coleridge sought to democratize the poor. in conversation with the public. In other words, they tried to empower the poor by putting them at the center of their work. They are indeed Marxists to do this, but it also shows the inevitable stare that is when non-working-class people try to speak for them. The attribution of death and its circulation to the working class says more about Wordsworth's view than it does about the working poor. Friedrich's painting represents a different type of people who are forgotten or "abandoned", as I have already mentioned. Looking at this picture, one could say that Wordsworth saw the poor in this way; he may find them worthy of being included in the mainstream of the culture, but in a way, he's not part of it either, so he's also weirding them out.