1. The World Is Too Much With Us
Presentation By:
Sarah Guider
Remember that there is always individuality in poetry! One person will not necessarily interpret a poem the same way another would.
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2. The World Is Too Much With Us
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 Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
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3. Topics of Discussion The Breakdown The Theme Ideology About the Author
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4. The Break Down
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5. The world is too much with us: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers
We're too used to the world (world meaning nature) and so we are "out of tune,” having lost our original (and emotional) connection to it.
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6. Little we see in Nature that is ours.
Wordsworth emphasizes his personification of Nature by capitalizing the “n.” This line could either imply that humans take advantage of nature and are to caught up with materialistic values. Or this line could imply that nature is infinite and only a very little is ours.
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7. We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
Wordsworth is saying that humans are so absorbed in insignificant things, that they neglect their own hearts and just give them away because they find no use for them.
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8. This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon.
Wordsworth personifies the sea as a female and capitalizes Sea as you would a woman’s name. The Sea demonstrates her innocence and unconsciousness of her nakedness by showing no fear of the moon. 
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9. The winds that will be howling at all hours
Wordsworth is personifying the wind as an animal. He may be trying to describe that the animal (meaning nature) is in constant rhythm crying out to be noticed.
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10. I’d rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn
Wordsworth would rather worship an old religion that dealt greatly with nature and the connection between it and mankind than be a part of a society that does not deal with nature at all.
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11. So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
The speaker is standing on a pleasant meadow yet he feels alone and desperate. All he wants is a quick glimpse or sight of something that would make him feel like he belongs in this crowded, world. He wants a glimpse of history, something reliable, something that is always there. He wants sight of Proteus and Triton because they have power, which is what the speaker wants. Proteus could change shape whenever he wished. The speaker specifically used the word forlorn indicating he feels abandoned and deserted in this field and wishes he could change shape to something else where he'll feel wanted in this world. Triton could control the waves with his wreathed horn which not only ties in with line 5, which discusses the sea, but also hints at the speaker's longing for control.
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12. Theme
The poor relationship between nature and mankind.
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13. Imagery
All the mythological, religions characters he refers to are close nature. When he uses the imagery of Proteus and Triton all that serves as imagery to help add to the fact that they dealt more with nature and had a great respect for nature.
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14. William Wordsworth
Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, in Cockermouth, Cumberland
Wordsworth is thought to be one of the earliest and perhaps the greatest of English romantic poets
He is well known for establishing romanticism as the era's dominant literary movement.
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15. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the (natural) bond between nature and the soul of mankind.
None of his poems were published until The poems An Evening Walk and Descriptive Sketches received little notice, and few copies were sold.
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16. In 1798, the book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads was published
In 1798, the book of poems entitled Lyrical Ballads was published. It was a collection of poetry written by Wordsworth, Dorothy, and the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This work is generally taken to mark the beginning of the romantic movement in English poetry. Wordsworth wrote almost all the poems in the volume, including the memorable "Tintern Abbey"; Coleridge contributed the famous "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
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17. Wordsworth had a sister Dorothy and they always enjoyed a warmly, sympathetic relationship. Wordsworth relied greatly on Dorothy as his devoted companion for encouragement in his literary endeavors.
Wordsworth is also famous for his “Lucy” poems, which are believed to be about a secret incestuous relationship with his sister.
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18. The tide of critical opinion turned in his favor after 1820, and Wordsworth lived to see his work universally praised.
Wordsworth died at Rydal Mount, April 23, 1850, and was buried in the Grasmere churchyard.
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19. The End
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