Monday, July 21, 2014

In "The World is Too Much with Us," with what are we out of tune?

This poem is above all a lament at the way that mankind
has given himself over to the cold-hearted, mercantile pursuit of possessions and
wealth. Wordsworth begins the poem with expressing how sad it is that we insist on
getting ourselves caught up in material considerations at the expense of our deeper self
or soul ("our hearts"). The main theme of the poem is expressed in line
8:



For this,
for everything, we are out of
tune...



Pursuit of
materialism has made us "out of tune" with Nature and unable to appreciate it beauty,
might, power and majesty. In the words of the poem, Nature "moves us not." Wordsworth's
feeling is that by sacrificing ourselves in such away we have lost something fundamental
and profoundly necessary to live our lives fully and completely. He ends the poem by
saying he would rather be a pagan than remain cut off from Nature and the true meaning
of life.

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