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! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. —Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.
In the early nineteenth century, Wordsworth wrote several sonnets lambasting what he perceived as "the decadent material cynicism of the time."[1] "The World Is Too Much with Us" is one of those works. It reflects his view that humanity must get in touch with people to progress spiritually.[1] The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBA ABBA CDCD CD. This Italian or Petrarchan sonnet uses the last six lines (sestet) to answer the first eight lines (octave). The first eight lines (octave) are the problems and the next six (sestet) are the solutions.
In the sestet, the poet imagines believing in gods like Proteus and Triton rather than being Christian, despite seeing paganism as "a creed outworn", because he thinks that life would be more meaningful that way.
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^ abPhillips Brian (17 August 2007). "SparkNotes on Wordsworth's Poetry "The world is too much with us". SparkNotes.
Further readingedit
Kroeber, Karl (1963). "A New Reading of 'The World Is Too Much with Us'". Studies in Romanticism. 2 (3): 183–188. doi:10.2307/25599587.
Ma, Tianyu (2017). "Boons, authority, and imagination: A reading of 'The World Is Too Much with Us'". ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews. doi:10.1080/0895769X.2017.1385377.
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