The world is too much with us is a poem written by famous English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. The poem was written in 1802 but it was originally published in 1807.
The World is Too Much with Us Analysis By William Wordsworth
Summary of The World is Too Much with Us By William Wordsworth
Let’s Talk about Author first : William Wordsworth was a Romantic British poet who was born in 7 April 1770.William was a famous poem of Romantic Age. His poem was usually about nature. William famous work include Lyrical Ballads which is a collection of his poems.
In poem, author has criticize people for being very busy in worldly pleasure due to which they are going away from nature. The people are disconnected from nature as they are more into materialistic world. They are forgetting true beauty which is nature and going towards modern technology.
The material world too much with us and we are stuck in it and it is controlling our lives now. We just keep running from one thing to another as our mind does not stop at one thing. We are always busy in earning and spending money and we does not care about the nature around us. We have destroy a power of meeting with people and growing friendship with them.
We does not pay attention to nature and did not spend time with it. We have stopped caring about nature which is ours, if we does not care about our nature then who will. As well as we have made a deal of our emotions with this materialistic world.
The poet says ocean hugs the moon and tides of ocean rise very high, things which nature is trying to show us we are going away from it. We became like a sleeping flowers which means we are awake but our soul is sleeping. We are alive though but dead from inside. We are not enjoying the real beauty of nature. We does not praise the beauty of nature as we are out of tune.
To connect with nature and feel its beauty is outdated nowadays, If in today’s world I ask you to wake up early to spend time with nature, then you will say it’s outdated now. The poet is trying say that I would love to do those things which are outdated now.
No one believes in or love nature but I do. I want to be a worshipper of nature because I love to be in nature .I would be able to see the reflection of Proteus from ocean if I become a worshipper of nature. And I will hear old Triton to blowing the conch.