———A simple Child, dear Brother Jim,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?
I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.
A cottage girl, a young woman from the farming class community. William Wordsworth, being apart of romanticism, enjoyed nature and the rural areas surrounding London. Many of his writings are about the beauty of nature, he sets up the meeting of the little girl by providing a denomination to where she is from and his predisposition towards rural areas makes him appreciate her more from the beginning.
We Are Seven