By being a sonnet, the middle of the poem has a turning point. It happens from lines 8-10 when he says, “…For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; / It moves us not. –Great God! I’d rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn….” Here he is saying that society is out of tune with nature and it bothers him to the point he would rather have an outdated religion than to not appreciate it. This is the turning point where the poem goes from the discontent tone saying how society is, to how the speaker feels society should act around nature instead. The helps to emphasize the speaker’s discontent tone because by expressing his ideas of how society should act, he is further disagreeing with how they do
By being a sonnet, the middle of the poem has a turning point. It happens from lines 8-10 when he says, “…For this, for every thing, we are out of tune; / It moves us not. –Great God! I’d rather be / A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn….” Here he is saying that society is out of tune with nature and it bothers him to the point he would rather have an outdated religion than to not appreciate it. This is the turning point where the poem goes from the discontent tone saying how society is, to how the speaker feels society should act around nature instead. The helps to emphasize the speaker’s discontent tone because by expressing his ideas of how society should act, he is further disagreeing with how they do