Analysis Of The World By William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth existed in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem that he 'Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye', gave him a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to 'see into the life of things'; (line 49). Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'; takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway 'readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight.'; Wordsworth accomplishes to prove that although time was lost along with his innocence, he

Imagine that by taking one magic pill, you could be at the top of your world. With one pill, you could find complete happiness and unmatched physical fulfillment. In his novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley uses the drug Soma, to give the characters all of the benefits of fulfillment, both physically and spiritually, yet ironically, as the drug plays out its role, the “fulfillment” leaves its consumer empty.

William Wordsworth: Artistic Reaction to the Industrial Revolution. (Fed 14, 2000). New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, c 1936.

The second and final work I am critiquing is from a book entitled, ‘The Life of William Wordsworth: A Critical Biography’ written by John Worthen. I have selected a chapter which pairs nicely with article mentioned above. The chapter features both Wordsworth and Coleridge as well. However, it is not as critical as the article, it is more biographical and informational which is to be expected in a biography. The chapter focuses on the years 1806 to 1807. It begins with the mention of the death of Wordsworth’s brother, John. According to Worthen, this deeply effected Wordsworth and he had little success with the poetry he was writing during this time. Worthen then, points to ‘Elegiac Stanzas’ which confronts his late brother’s death, displays a new sense of reality, and again redeems him as a poet. Worthen states, “The poem makes the narrator 's youthful state of ecstatic, thoughtless love for the natural world — ‘of lasting ease, / Elysian quiet, without toil or strife’ — utterly unreal, in contrast with the realities of life as he now knows them. A ‘fond delusion of my heart’ he calls that old love, ‘to be pitied’ not believed in” (328). The author implies that the death of his brother drastically changed his worldview. The bleak reality of a world without his brother led to Wordsworth becoming more mature and wise after experiencing loss. The author then shifts to discussing ‘Tintern Abbey’ and his reflections during a time of youth. I believe that the author mentions the

These different views portray the idle ad infertile state of human society. Stanza I begin with the description of a cold winter evening and the routine scenario such as ‘burnt-out ends of smoky days’ (line 4), ‘the grimy scrapes’ (line 6), ‘withered leaves’ (line 7), ‘newspapers from vacant lots’ (line 8), through a third person omniscient point of view. All these description of the day and the street tells of something that is dark, uncheerful and even still. These lines suggest the mundane scenario of a society that has lost all its charms and liveliness. Then the point of view shifts to the second person ‘You’. The third stanza gives a picture of a person who waits for someone else to come to a lonely bed with hopes of something unreal. This has the suggestions to human lives where people wait for things to become better and in the hope lose grip of their own lives. The lines 33-34, “you have such a vision of the street as the street hardly understands” gives the reader the picture that the person on the bed dreamt of the street of the street as it actually never will be, implying to hopes the human, as an individual, has of how the society should be. Not cold, distorted and dead but lively, closely knit and warm with emotions. It indirectly shows of how distorted human society had become as an effect of the damage humans inflict on each other thus making the society a waste land. The

William Wordsworth's poem The world is too much with us is a statement about conflict between nature and humanity. The symbolism in his poem illustrates a sense of the conviction and deep feelings Wordsworth had toward nature. He longs for a much simpler time when the progress of humanity was tempered by the restriction nature imposed. Wordsworth is saying in this poem that man is wasting his time on earth by not appreciating nature around him. He is looking but not beholding. "We have given our hearts away" (4) means that we have sold the part of us that is from the earth (man which is from dust) in order to make other things more important than appreciating life; such as, money or

and that he believes them. The poem also translates into how living in the city is toilsome and that the city is unrelenting. On the other hand it shows how the city can be prosperous and happy with the city’s disadvantages. in the second half of the poem it’s telling how nomatter what is wrong with the city, the people are still proud of who they are.

We are not victims of our biology or circumstances, we are responsible for our decisions and making choices is the most powerful thing in the universe, only beneath God of course. It was with this premise that great nations were built. The true Christian faith is the largest and most powerful force of civilization in history. It arose with just a few disciples in a dusty region far away from the centers of global decisions, and in a few centuries became the dominant culture of the world. We created a beautiful, scientific, technological, and advanced civilization. In spite of its many defects, what we call Judeo-Christian western civilization is the most beautiful invention of mankind up to today. Vishal Mangawadi in his wonderful work “The Book that Made Your World”, describes how, through the influence of the Bible, we had the anti-slavery movement, caring for the weak, widows, orphans, disabled, and miserable, democracy, justice, freedom of expression and human dignity.

The entire poem has a smooth rhythm, which makes it appealing and easy for the reader to understand. For the first 8 lines, the speaker describes to the readers how the world is too much with us and spends the rest of the poem discussing how he wants change to pre-Christian (pagan) beliefs where he can respond to nature. The writer starts the poem by repeating the title “The world is too much with us” (ll. 1). This used to reinforce the point and explain that the world is slowly drifting from being completely natural to adapting to change made by humans. The first four lines of the stanza “The world is too…a sordid boon!”

Despite constant style and content changes within poetry throughout history, “God’s Grandeur,” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, is very comparable to the poem, “The World is too Much with Us,” by William Wordsworth. These poems’ greatest similarity lies in their themes. They each describe society and its lack of care for the natural world, where mankind is too preoccupied with duties and material things. The most obvious difference between the poems is the tone they end with—Hopkins’s poem starts with a sardonic tone and ends with a more positive stance towards nature and God by expressing a belief in renewal and redemption through the power of God. Wordsworth’s poem, inversely, remains cynical throughout and in the end the speaker wishes for his

Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads were published in 1789, with no preface as an “advertisement.” Another Lyrical Ballads, this time with two volumes, a preface, and no poetic diction, was published in 1800. In 1802, another Lyrical Ballads was published with two volumes and a preface. Wordsworth’s Elegiac Stanzas are an internalization of epic. Nature, memory and imagination all play a huge role in the poem, as does imagination’s relationship with knowledge. Wordsworth talks about imagination as an absolute ideal, although that is dangerous because it divorces us from the rest of the world.

In “The World is Too Much With Us”, William Wordsworth accuses human evolution to have lost its connection with nature. In the first line Wordsworth says, “The world is too much with us" this phrase likely meant that the world is too full of humans who are losing their connection to divinity and even more importantly, to nature. The speaker tells the reader that everything in nature including the ocean and the wind is in synch with each other, but mankind has fallen away from this connection and is now “out of tune." Humanity has become an inconvenience to the world because we are out of harmony with nature. Wordsworth explains that people, through their consumerist lift styles, can no longer identify with the natural world and have lost their

To better understand this poem some history about London during the time the poem was written is helpful. London was the “. . . undisputed cultural, economic, religious, educational, and political center” of England in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. It was a city of “warehouses, docks, factories, prisons,

“The World Is Too Much with Us” represents societies absent connection with nature. Right off the bat, Wordsworth repeats the title of this poem to emphasize a Romantic element. The first couple of lines begin with Wordsworth stating that the modern world is losing the battle to materialism. "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" (Wordsworth 2-4)! In an

Technological advancement and social "progress" were steps backwards for Wordsworth and thus he looked to the past for his inspiration.