The World Is Too Much With Us Meaning

William Wordsworth believes “The World” is too awesome for us to appreciate it. As people become concerned about time and money that they let their powers go to waste. As time goes by they want to begin to accumulate things, in due time that is when nature becomes nonexistent. This sonnet offers us an angry outline and gives us a pretentious attitude on how far the nineteenth century was living from a Wordsworth ideal. It disgusts him because nature is so delightedly available, it somewhat calls out to humanity. The ending result is Wordsworth would rather become a pagan in a complete state disillusionment than be out of touch with nature
The diction in this sonnet “The World is too much with us” is abstract and obsolete. The word “sordid” and “boon”, Wordsworth makes a statement that …show more content…
Wordsworth did not see nature as a commodity. “Little we see in Nature that is ours (line 3)”, coexisting with nature is a relationship envisioned, he alludes to this relationship that nature is at the mercy of humanity because of the vulnerable way nature is described. “This sea that bares her bosom to the moon (line 5)”, is a vision of a feminine creature opening herself to the heavens. “Sleeping flowers (line 7)” also the vulnerability because it describes how nature is being overrun unknowingly and is at humanities will. But nature is not as innocent as she seems, Wordsworth gave us his opinion on humanity on man’s destructive nature and explained why humanity should conquer nature and control it. Nature is too unpredictable to be controlled by humanity let alone being destroyed by it. Man is at the mercy of nature, with natural things such as: mountains, rivers, and the weather. Man has always had to build around this things because mountains cannot move, and living on a river is impossible. The weather also affects man, however the weather man has to accommodate to her