The World Is Too Much with Us
The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1807. This poem reads to the tune of social commentary. As society changes, its values change as well. Within every society there are plenty of artists ready to critisize and point out the negative changes. Wordsworth was a poet who commonly wrote poetry alluding to the dramatic shift in people themselvs. This poem speaks of how, as we evolve, humans become more distant from nature. "The World Is too Much With Us" is a sonnet that contains dramatic imagry and revealing personification. There are suttle, yet strong, comparasions between the past and present. The sonnet, in its entirity, is only 14 lines yet it convays a dramatic and powerful message.
"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"
Wordsworth voice is that of judgement and commentary. From the begining he speaks of how, past and present, we remove ourselvs from 'the world'. He directly comments on consumerism. The mentality that all we have, we buy, we consume. It is a rare person who stops to think of where 'things' come from. It is an even rarer person who believes we don't need 'things' to be complete, happy and to survive. Humans have evolved past the point of struggeling to survive. Our mortality rate has dropped so low that more humans are born faster than die. Advances in sciences and medicine have increased our possible lifespan to an even 100 years old. The gift of our minds is a double edge sword. We move foward in effenciacy but even further from satisfaction. In modern day people are concerned with earning and spending money. When people look at nature, we, as a society, see nothing that is usefull. We see nothing we can eat, no where we can live and no place to call home. The rule deserts of the world have
By William Wordsworth
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is a poem written by William Wordsworth in 1807. This poem reads to the tune of social commentary. As society changes, its values change as well. Within every society there are plenty of artists ready to critisize and point out the negative changes. Wordsworth was a poet who commonly wrote poetry alluding to the dramatic shift in people themselvs. This poem speaks of how, as we evolve, humans become more distant from nature. "The World Is too Much With Us" is a sonnet that contains dramatic imagry and revealing personification. There are suttle, yet strong, comparasions between the past and present. The sonnet, in its entirity, is only 14 lines yet it convays a dramatic and powerful message.
"The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!"
Wordsworth voice is that of judgement and commentary. From the begining he speaks of how, past and present, we remove ourselvs from 'the world'. He directly comments on consumerism. The mentality that all we have, we buy, we consume. It is a rare person who stops to think of where 'things' come from. It is an even rarer person who believes we don't need 'things' to be complete, happy and to survive. Humans have evolved past the point of struggeling to survive. Our mortality rate has dropped so low that more humans are born faster than die. Advances in sciences and medicine have increased our possible lifespan to an even 100 years old. The gift of our minds is a double edge sword. We move foward in effenciacy but even further from satisfaction. In modern day people are concerned with earning and spending money. When people look at nature, we, as a society, see nothing that is usefull. We see nothing we can eat, no where we can live and no place to call home. The rule deserts of the world have