Actually the poem gives no positives about the "world" as
it is presented in the poem. However, we need to be careful how we define the word to
begin with. Wordsworth is using the word to refer to the world of material things or
possessions, that, according to him, we have sacrificed our values and our connection to
gain. Note how the "world" is described:
The world it too much with us; late and
soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our
powers
According to
Wordsworth, then, pursuit of the "world" alone has caused us to "lay waste our powers"
and give ourselves over completely to the material acquisition of things and money. The
poem therefore represents a rejection of such pursuits, which, in Wordsworth's opinion,
is profoundly negative as it distances us from Nature and makes us "out of
tune."
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