对华兹华斯的we-are-seven-的分析解读.docx

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 Return to Nature --An Analysis of We Are Seven Abstract: William Wordsworth’s life experience and his changed attitudes towards life and society give a full understanding of various themes of the poem. After analysis of the poet’s life experience, it is not difficult for us to draw a conclusion that Wordsworth naturally forms his special and penetrating view of the nature, children and people from the lower class and other common things. This poem is a typical example in which the little girl is the heroine and her simple words, on the contrary, lead to many deep thoughts about life. Returning to nature and being a part of the nature serves as one of the themes of poem. In the blessing of the nature, human beings’ soul can be elevated to a higher and purer level. Key words: We Are Seven, nature, child, adult, return In the poem We are Seven, we can perceive the typical principles used by Wordsworth as against the “decorum” and “poetic diction” claimed by the 18th century’s neo-classicists. In addition to these superficial differences, we also feel a sense intimacy and freedom from the poem. Therefore, it is necessary for us to analyze the poem and the profound backgrounds and meanings of the poem. Wordsworth was brought up under the tonic of Mother Nature from whom he had learnt a lot about life and who had influenced the little boy’s mind gradually and deeply. His love for nature seemed perpetual as if that was his instinctive quality. In his later life, he gradually “turned conservative and received favors from the great pensions and poet laureateship”(Chen Jia:5). He, as well as Southey and Coleridge, was consistently attacked by Byron as the “Lakers”. Of course, this name came out due to the two revolutions--French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, which brought about great misery to the mass in England and enabled him to see the aristocratic-bourgeois society more clearly. Another important thing is that the wars between France