The World Is Too Much With Us Thesis
In William Wordsworth’s “The world is too much with us,” an unidentified speaker laments that society is disconnected from nature. He speaks longingly of nature…Sonnet… Thesis! Something involving the need for nature in order to get close to God.
The tone is not nostalgic, something that is pretty rare for Wordsworth. The poem makes no mention of a time when things were better than they are now. The speaker is longing for a different world instead of longing for a time gone past. Thus, the tone is melancholy.
The world that Wordsworth is referring to in the titular line is the secular world; the world that does not have to do with God. The speaker is concerned that society is getting too wrapped up in the world. It is a problem that has been …show more content…
If God is to be found in nature then surely Pagans are closer to God than his current consumeristic society.
The speaker loves nature, but he also really wants to conform. This is a conflict because the materialistic worldview of society is causing apathy toward nature. The speaker feels like he cannot connect with nature because of his society and since he really wants to connect with nature he wishes he lived in a Pagan society where he could connect with nature, even if he was following an outdated creed and everything he believed in was a lie. At least then he would have nature.
The audience is linked to the format of the poem. Petrarchan sonnet, inherited form. Typical format, octave introduces the problem and the sestet introduces the answer. In this case, the problem is an existential crisis- moment when a person questions their foundations of life because this is a personal crisis the speaker focuses inward. The solution offered in the sestet is not a traditional one. He doesn’t actually have an answer/there isn’t an answer. He asks God for help, which is something that is very personal/individual, but he doesn’t actually expect
The tone is not nostalgic, something that is pretty rare for Wordsworth. The poem makes no mention of a time when things were better than they are now. The speaker is longing for a different world instead of longing for a time gone past. Thus, the tone is melancholy.
The world that Wordsworth is referring to in the titular line is the secular world; the world that does not have to do with God. The speaker is concerned that society is getting too wrapped up in the world. It is a problem that has been …show more content…
If God is to be found in nature then surely Pagans are closer to God than his current consumeristic society.
The speaker loves nature, but he also really wants to conform. This is a conflict because the materialistic worldview of society is causing apathy toward nature. The speaker feels like he cannot connect with nature because of his society and since he really wants to connect with nature he wishes he lived in a Pagan society where he could connect with nature, even if he was following an outdated creed and everything he believed in was a lie. At least then he would have nature.
The audience is linked to the format of the poem. Petrarchan sonnet, inherited form. Typical format, octave introduces the problem and the sestet introduces the answer. In this case, the problem is an existential crisis- moment when a person questions their foundations of life because this is a personal crisis the speaker focuses inward. The solution offered in the sestet is not a traditional one. He doesn’t actually have an answer/there isn’t an answer. He asks God for help, which is something that is very personal/individual, but he doesn’t actually expect