: About Me

In his poem, 'The World is too Much with Us', Wordsworth combines great artistry with skilful use of structural features in order to create a sombre tone which clearly expresses Wordsworth's 'forlorn' despair at mankind's failure to appreciate the beauty of nature. Throughout the poem, Wordsworth evokes images of man as out of tune with nature, and of a world in which there is no space for humankind to fit in: 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 ...