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"The World is Too Much Without Us"


-William Wordsworth





The world is too much with us; late and soon.


Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;


Little we see in Nature that is ours;


We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!


This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,


The winds that will be howling at all hours,


And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,


For this, for everything, we are out of tune;


It moves us not.--Great God! I'd reather be


A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;


So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,


Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;


Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;


Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.








what is the message in this poem?





what "glimpses" would make him less "for lorn"?





where would he reather be?why?





what is he tryin to escape?





significance of title?





explain to me the 2nd line.

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1) The message in the poem, is that we have lost our way, and forgotten about the natural joys of nature and have become obsessed with materialistic things, rather than the sheer joy of life.


2) Glimpses of an idealistic(To him.) past.


3) He would rather be living in the past as a Pagan, with all the loss of material comforts, than be where he is.


4) I believe he is trying to escape the reality, of the world he is living in, for a romanticised past period.


5)He believes that we have ignored the world (Nature.) for too long. Probably following a selfish search for personal gratification.


6) By concentrating on materialistic things. e.g. Money and the things that it can purchase, we lose the ability to wonder at


the beauty of nature and the natural world of flora and fauna.





Hope this is of some help to you.
Reply:Environment to each must be "All that is excepting me." Universe in turn must be "All that is including me." The only difference between environment and universe is me... The observer, doer, thinker, lover, enjoyer.
Reply:1. The message of this poem as I see it is that man spends so much time working and worrying that he never takes the time to enjoy the beauties of nature.





2. Glimpses of the pagan gods such as Triton and Proteus.





3. The question shouldn't be where he'd rather be, but what he'd rather be. The author says that he'd rather be a pagan who worships the forces of nature and old forgotten gods.





The reason for this is because he never wants to be unmoved by the glories of nature as he alleges most others are.





4. What he's trying to escape is again the loss of the ability to be moved by the beauties of nature.





6. We waste our efforts on making money and spending it rather than on the truly important business of admiring the pretty flowers.
Reply:The speaker accuses the modern age of having lost its connection to nature and to everything meaningful. That human beings are too preoccupied with the material ("The world...getting and spending") and have lost touch with the spiritual and with nature.





The speaker wishes that he were a pagan raised according to a different vision of the world, so that, "standing on this pleasant lea," he might see images of ancient gods rising from the waves, a sight that would cheer him greatly. He imagines "Proteus rising from the sea," and Triton "blowing his wreathed horn."





He is trying to escape the decadent material cynicism of the time.





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