The World Is Too Much With Us By Romantic Poet William Wordsworth

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Cristina Ingravera
Smelley 4
19 April 2016
Literary Analysis

“The World is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet written by romantic poet William Wordsworth. It was published around 1803, critics are unsure. The poet was “inspired to write a flurry of sonnets himself. He then made extensive use of the sonnet fork throughout his poetic career” (Overview 1). The sonnet deals with some major concerns of Wordsworth. Some of his themes were “a concern with nature and how nature is perceived by the human mind; the need to develop the faculty of imagination; and the lament for a lost, visionary way of perceiving the world.” (Overview 1). The poem starts with the speaker regretting that the world is excessively full of human beings and they are wasting their