2.2. The World is Too much with Us

 The World is Too much with 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 rather 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 wreathèd horn.


About the author:

William Wordsworth (1770- 1850) was born and raised in the Lake District in England. The beauty of his birthplace had a significant impact on his attitude to poetry and the world at large. He delighted in the sights and sounds of nature and believed that they exercised a benign influence upon humankind. For Wordsworth nature was a loving mother who gave him spiritual sustenance. 

His collaboration with S.T. Coleridge resulted in the publication of the Lyrical Ballads in 1797. This heralded the Romantic Movement in England. In this poem Wordsworth bemoans the besmirching of pristine nature due to the increasing 

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  1. Jalenemeshika.s12 October 2023 at 21:28

    1.The authors tells about the world is too much with us
    2.late and soon getting and spending lay waste with powes
    3.we see nature that is ours
    4.given our hearts away a sordid boon
    5.have a glimpses that would make me less forlorn

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  2. Sankari.C15 October 2023 at 01:25

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    1.The authors tells about the world is too much with us
    2.late and soon getting and spending lay waste with powes
    3.we see nature that is ours
    4.given our hearts away a sordid boon
    5.have a glimpses that would

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