The World Is Too Much With Us Meaning
Today’s world is filled with so much greed, uncertainty, and chaos. People rushing around trying to live fast as they can to get where they think they need to be in life. In the poem “The World is Too Much With Us” Wordsworth is describing how humans have taken over the world without appreciation. We, the humans, fail to appreciate nature and all of the beauty and power the world holds. Wordsworth describes how the human race needs to be brought back to the beauty of mother nature, and that we need to stop wasting time obsessing about money so that we may spend it on countless material things that hold no true meaning in life.
In “The World is Too Much With Us” Wordsworth expresses that the world is not big enough for the human race. Wordsworth also …show more content…
Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;”(Lines 9-10). Wordsworth is making it perfectly clear that he would rather be out of touch with all of the changes that were currently going on in the world so that he may continue to enjoy the nature that he loves so much. It’s almost as if he is shouting at the people, and that he is ashamed of what the world is coming to. In lines 11-12 “So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;”(Lines 11-12). Wordsworth is saying that the very sight of nature give him joy and makes his sadness go away. Maybe what he is also trying to say is that we do not need material possessions to be happy, because the simplest things in life such as a simple field of flowers will bring great joy. “Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”(Lines 13-14). In lines 13 and 14 Wordsworth makes use of our imagination by suggesting that we may see a Greek Sea God if we look hard enough, or it could just be Wordsworth’s way of encouraging us to use our
In “The World is Too Much With Us” Wordsworth expresses that the world is not big enough for the human race. Wordsworth also …show more content…
Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;”(Lines 9-10). Wordsworth is making it perfectly clear that he would rather be out of touch with all of the changes that were currently going on in the world so that he may continue to enjoy the nature that he loves so much. It’s almost as if he is shouting at the people, and that he is ashamed of what the world is coming to. In lines 11-12 “So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;”(Lines 11-12). Wordsworth is saying that the very sight of nature give him joy and makes his sadness go away. Maybe what he is also trying to say is that we do not need material possessions to be happy, because the simplest things in life such as a simple field of flowers will bring great joy. “Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”(Lines 13-14). In lines 13 and 14 Wordsworth makes use of our imagination by suggesting that we may see a Greek Sea God if we look hard enough, or it could just be Wordsworth’s way of encouraging us to use our