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The World is too Much with Us
by
William Wordsworth
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The World is too Much with Us
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Symbolism, Imagery, Wordplay
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Death
Paganism and Mythology
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The World is too Much with Us Symbolism, Imagery & Wordplay
There’s more to a poem than meets the eye.
Nature
"The World is too Much With Us" is obsessed with nature; in fact, the central complaint of the poem is that people are so consumed by consumerism that they are no longer moved by nature. But there'...
The Senses
In a poem concerned with our inability to be moved by nature, it is no surprise that the senses are invoked on several occasions. The speaker suggests that our obsession with "getting and spending"...
Feelings
Wordsworth is one of the Romantic poets, and they were always talking about their feelings. This poem is no exception, only the rhetoric is more subtle than usual. It is not only humanity's inabili...
Death
There aren't any overt references to death in the poem, but the speaker imagines humanity's alienation from nature as a kind of death. In addition, nature has become so alien to mankind that it is...
Paganism and Mythology
The speaker complains that people are no longer moved by the sea and the winds, and he tells us that he'd rather be a pagan. At least that way he would be able to see something in nature less depre...
