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The world is too much with us
Today, we will be talking about the poem. The World is Too Much with Us, written by William Wordsworth. The context of this poem is that William Wordsworth is the poet of nature. He loves nature very much, exploring and praising it. He was in love with nature, and he said nature should be worshipped.
As the name indicates the world is too much with us. That word has done too much for us it has given its nature. we should also be taking an interest in the world and engrossing the world. Coming towards the line-by-line explanation a little bit and after that we will discuss some of the elements like some breeds the team and the form of the poem.
The first two lines of the poem
Explanation
In the first line, the poet is trying to say that the world has been with us from the start, from the very beginning till now, it has been with us, and it is a kind of entertainment for us. It has never left us, though we are not paying attention. Yet the world is doing its duty.
In the second line, the words getting and spending mean that we earn and we spend. It is pointing towards a materialistic approach that from the start of the day we work like machines for our daily needs and trying to fill them and wasting our time and powers, energies, and capabilities on those materialistic things.
In the third line, the author is trying to say that we are so busy in that materialistic world fulfilling our needs that we have no time to gaze at nature and praise nature not even we have the time to see it. The author is saying that nature is made for us and God has made it for us to gaze at it and praise it, but we are paying little and no attention to it as we are busy in the materialistic world.
We have given our hearts to this materialistic world, which is totally wrong, according to the poet. A sordid boon literally means a bad bargain. This means here that God has given us nature, and in contrast to that, we are not even paying attention to its beauty, which the poet has said is a bad bargaining for us with the world.
Next 4 lines
An explanation of these coming lines is that the poet here is praising the beauty of nature, and it’s saying that this sea is showing the beauty of the moon. that is bearing the reflection of the moon in itself, meaning that it is so beautiful that it is showing as the deflection of the moon in itself now we notice in this line that the poet is saying that This Sea means that he is sitting in the bank of the sea writing this poem.
Now in the next line, the poet is trying to praise another beauty of nature, which is a wind that flows gently here and there in all its time, and when the speed of the wind little bit increase it produces a howling sound which is quite pleasant.
In this line, the poet is trying to say that the wind is flowing gently in its own way; it is like a sleeping flower It means that when the wind is slow, it does not make the flower and in the last line, the poet is trying to say that for all this beauty of nature and for all this everything God has given to us in this world, we have no time for that; we are out of tune, which means that we have paying no attention to it Praise is more difficult, as the poet has discussed. People have no time for that; only how they will Praise nature.
In all these four lines, the poet is basically using literary devices. The poet is using personification to make a connection between The Reader with each description. Print the very first line bares her bosom to the moon author is trying to connect intimacy between the moon and the sea and then the howling of wind giving the wind a human emotion.
Next 4 lines
In these lines, the poet is trying to say that all these beauties of nature which are the sea the vein, the sleeping flower and many more it does not affect us because we are not paying attention to them. in these lines, the poet is wishing and praising the god that, oh great god, I am living in the society of believers, which means the poet is basically pointing towards Christianity.
The poet is saying and wishing it as I am living in a society of believers but pays no attention to the word nature and I am the only one standing here praising nature and exploring its beauty. He is saying that there are so many believers of God but no one is paying attention to God’s creation which is nature and its beauty is to be praised. But I am standing here alone when no one praises the beauty of nature in this believer society.
So I want to go to the society of the pagan, which is the society of disbelievers. Nonbelievers do not believe in any God, but I am standing here alone when no one praises the beauty of nature in this believer society so I want to go to a society of Pagan which the disbelievers or nonbelievers do not believe in any God but will be praising the of nature. so I want to go there and explore and praise the beauty of nature as they are the disbelievers yet they press the beauty of nature and I will be there with them also praising the beauty of nature because I’m more up to that.
In the last two closing lines of that poem, the poet is trying to say that when I come to the people, the Pagans, who are the disbelievers or the non-believers of any God yet they praise the beauty of nature. I will be with them, and I will be closer to the Gods of nature which is the proteus send triton it is said that proteus was able to predict the future and triton was able to control the shores of sea. So I will be with these gods at least I will have a glimpse of nature.