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Literary Work: The World is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon
This essay is aimed at analyzing a famous sonnet “The World is too much with us” written by legendary British poet William Wordsworth. He is mainly famous for his romantic and nature oriented poems and is also known as the ‘lake poet’. The poem is basically a protest against the modern advancements that has led to dramatic evolving of human priorities and values, a negative shift from nature to materialism. Published in 1807, this poem is considered as one of the best literary works of Wordsworth which has a powerful message that challenge conventional patterns of thinking (Miall 164). The central idea of the poem revolves around the harsh reality that modern man has lost its association with nature. Like most of Wordsworth’s works, this poem too demonstrates strong imaginative power.
The poem was written at a time when industrialization was transforming every aspect of the civil life and there was a massive political chaos between England and France (Fralin). Hence, every single verse of the sonnet portrays his frustration and grief towards the utilitarianism of the conventional society where people are obsessed with money and power and have been trying to mechanize every aspect of life. Wordsworth has strikingly shown his regret and has condemned that people don’t appreciate and value nature and are losing spiritual connection with divinity and natural beauty. In certain versus, the poet seems to rely on the assumption that by the term ‘world’ it should be taken as something similar to the idea ‘man of the world’. The sonnet invites the readers to imagine that any sympathy or approval of the activities of the ‘man of the world’ is condemnable. Thus, while the term ‘with us’ refers physical closeness, the comment ‘too much with us’ implies the crossing of some boundary of the ...