The World Is Too Much with Us
In William Wordsworth’s poem, The World Is Too Much with Us, the speaker expresses
his frustration with the materialistic, greed-driven world the earth has become. The speaker
insists that nature has more to offer us than what we are seeing, and desires a change of heart
from mankind. The speaker uses metaphors to illustrate the divinity of the earth and idioms to
describe our lack of noticing the beauty around us. The poem continues to portray the speaker’s
weariness as the structure of the poem takes a shift half way through, losing its focus on society
as a whole and becoming more refined to the speaker alone. Here, the tone shifts as well, from a
determined voice to one tired and melancholy.
In William Wordsworth’s poem, The World Is Too Much with Us, the speaker expresses
his frustration with the materialistic, greed-driven world the earth has become. The speaker
insists that nature has more to offer us than what we are seeing, and desires a change of heart
from mankind. The speaker uses metaphors to illustrate the divinity of the earth and idioms to
describe our lack of noticing the beauty around us. The poem continues to portray the speaker’s
weariness as the structure of the poem takes a shift half way through, losing its focus on society
as a whole and becoming more refined to the speaker alone. Here, the tone shifts as well, from a
determined voice to one tired and melancholy.