The World is Too Much With Us

Since I just did my presentation on this poem, I figured I'd recap it for all of you. William Wordsworth was ™born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England. He studied at St. John's College in Cambridge, and came into contact with the French Revolution. He eventually died on April 23, 1850.


™Wordsworth is highlighting the fact that we have nature in abundance but don’t appreciate it, and have given nature up for technology. ™He claims we need to pay attention because we are out of tune with nature itself. ™The phrase the world is "too much with us" implies that it has gotten too big for us to handle. ™It is now possible for us to spend all of our time "getting and spending.“ ™The line, "For this, for everything we are out of tune" implies that man is out of tune with nature, and unable to live in harmony with the world around him
™The phrase "sleeping flowers" describes how nature is being overrun unknowingly .Such advancements come with a heavy price, at least according to the speaker of the poem.

Wordsworth wrote this poem ™during the Industrial Revolution, when there was  far ™more technology and  far less time spent out enjoying nature. ™People had/have less appreciation for the natural world and take it for granted, even to this day.