What is nature? Is it just tree or is it a place to find inter peace? In "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth he used the literary devices paradox, personification, and metaphors . To help understand how humans have lost connection with nature. Wordsworth uses paradox by writing " we have given are hearts away a sordid boon"(4). He uses sordid which means dirty bad idea basically something that isn't right. He also uses boon means a gift or something that is given. The translation of the two put together is a dirty gift or a bad idea. This meaning that giving your heart away is not good it is a mistake. That people are giving up are hearts and they shouldn’t be, they should be keeping them instead of investing
