Michelle Ward- "The World is Too Much With Us"

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US
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;
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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.
William Wordsworth, 1807

This poem “The World is Too Much With Us”, written by William Wordsworth, is a visual snapshot of the countryside. Wordsworth describes nature as a serene experience that acts as a building block to how you discover who you are. Wordsworth is discouraged with how the countryside has been succumbed by the advancements that the world is experiencing with technology. The language that Wordsworth uses within this poem creates romantic imagery of a lifestyle that is being deteriorated by the take over of technology. Wordsworth describes that the lives we used to live will no longer comfort us in our new, advanced society.