In Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven,” Wordsworth seems to make it look as if the little girl doesn’t understand there are only five and not seven children, due to the deaths of two siblings. The adult is failing to grasp some romantic elements such as the child’s simplicity/innocence of death or her downright stubbornness towards the adult’s meddling remarks. The adult fails to understand that the girl does not fully understand …showed first 75 words of 484 total…

…showed last 75 words of 484 total…does not appreciate the adult's meddling comments regarding her dead siblings. Maybe this girl is trying to show the adult that no matter what he says she was standing her ground, and it was none of his business attempting to make her think otherwise. Hence, line 69 exclaims, “…Nay, we are seven!” In conclusion, the innocence/simplicity of the child is not the only romantic element the adult failed to grasp, but possibly one of many.