The World Is Too Much With Us

The World Is Too Much With Us, Response

Poetry has always been difficult for me to understand and interpret. People, when they write poetry, feel like they can express themselves or a message they want to get across when they put their thoughts on paper. In “The World Is Too Much With Us”, by William Wordsworth, he wants to get a unique message across about the world and how we treat it. Yes, I like this poem because it talks about the world and poetically offers somewhat factual statements that nature is turning into urbanization because of human actions. There is too much in the way of material things for us in the world to appreciate from electronics to cars. We’re concerned too much about money “we waste our power” and energy and are always trying to reach certain material goals with the money we do have or make.   Leaving us to believe being materialistic means you are being destructive and show great greed.  Even though material things appear to make most happy and show advancement in the world in a variety of ways it can also feed the greed that has one believing they always need more.

The poem is trying to say that people were beginning to destroy nature in the early ages.   The relationship between mankind and nature is mostly at the hands of us humans.  “Like sleeping flowers” shows us he is trying to tell us nature is vulnerable and can easily be mistreated.  We have become too civilized, perhaps, that most people don’t even see the beauty in nature anymore. People started to pollute nature without even knowing it “late” meaning in the past and “soon” indicating our future will be polluted or destroyed by us as well. Everyone started to move from their bungalows and retreats in the forest to the city otherwise known as urbanization.

This poem is romantic as he regards the “sea” as a female and baring “her bosom to the moon”.   Also used “for this, for everything, we are out of tune” generally seems to imply that mankind is out of tune with nature, and thus unable to live in harmony.  Wordsworth also used “I”, “us” and “we” to have your empathy and to have you feel what he was feeling. He is glorifying that this poem is still true to this day. With all the factories polluting the earth and not cleaning things up enough, people driving cars every day, cutting trees that don’t need to be cut, and all for what really?  “The World is too much for us” with people overusing things and species being killed from humans making mistakes the world, indeed, may be too much for us.