FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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taking life for granted
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the wind always howling
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giving our hearts away
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the sea and her bosom
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Detailed explanation-1: -"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-2: -Theme: Giving up nature for materialistic things and how it has changed people. Topic: Increased materialism from the Industrial Revolution and the movement away from nature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much With Us is a Petrarchan sonnet recognizable by the rhyme scheme and the eight/six line format.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stating his dissatisfaction, Wordsworth writes “Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers” to clearly portray that people have given up their “powers”, whether that meant their livelihoods, passions, or even freedoms, (since the industrial revolution introduce the time clock), for this form of efficiency.
Detailed explanation-5: -This line refers to the focus we keep on our modern technology and lives busy with unimportant troubles. Wordsworth expresses his discontent with the way nature is disregarded, and relates to how little attention we pay nature in this modern day.