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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: 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;
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.”
(Wordsworth 7)
“The world is too much with us” poem by William Wordsworth is a poem explicating the conflict that is existing between humanity and the nature surrounding them. Wordsworth has a deep feeling toward nature that can be seen in the choice of the word he uses in the poem and the way he is deeply expressing himself with great conviction. In the poem, he is finding it hard to understand why man does not take time to nurture and appreciate nature to his full capability. Various vocabularies have been used by the author in his attempt to deliver his intent to the readers.
An idiom refers to a word used by the author although they don’t bear their direct meaning. For instance, “we are out of tune” meaning we are not in agreement.
Metaphor has also been used severally, in line 5: This Sea that bears her bosom to the moon, Wordsworth labels the sea as something that is supposed to move us but it doesn’t, he compares it to someone that wants to undress “bares her bosom,” but the person does, meanwhile, in his comparison he doesn’t use the term like or as therefore making this literary device to be a metaphor
a simile: simile make use of the words like or as.

The wind howling like a wolf is an example of a simile. Also “… now like sleeping flowers” is a simile
A polysemous word is a word that has multiple interpretations. Several polysemous words have been used in the poem. Proteus is a Greek god; it can also mean the sun is rising from the horizon.
Nonsense word: old Triton
Work cited
Wordsworth, William. Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey. Adams Press, 1907.