ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Theme in “The World is Too Much With Us":Giving up nature for materialistic things and how it has changed people.
A
true
B
false
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; In these lines of The World is Too Much With Us, the speaker describes the beauties of nature that most people are missing out on. He describes the sea, and the wind, and the flowers.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The World Is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth represents modern humanity’s lost spiritual connection with nature, in which he believed could only be preserved in memory. This poem is a sonnet that through images and metaphors offers an angry summation of the theme of communion with nature.

Detailed explanation-4: -Theme: The theme of this poem is nature and imagery. The poet is trying to tell that nature is around us everywhere, but there is no way we could duplicate or record it in our art or thoughts, as nature is brilliant at its simplicity.

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