Walking Through "The World Is Too Much With Us"

“The World Is Too Much With Us” is a sonnet written by William Wordsworth in the early 1800s. It is about nature going to waste and people wasting their powers. William Wordsworth is disappointed with the modern age losing its connection to nature. This talks about people being distracted with material things and being disconnected with nature. Society is encompassed with the materialistic side of life. They do not care about what happens in the world. They are so involved in their materialistic life that they forget about the reality of the world and what the effects of their actions are and how they impact the future. When it says “late and soon”, it means, now and in the future we spend and waste.  People in society are looking at the here and now.  They are not looking at what and how their actions are going to impact the world of tomorrow.  “Little we see in nature” is saying we do not see much or care about the beauty of nature.  Society takes advantage of the beauty of the earth and is not concerned with the fact that their actions are impacting the future of today.  They are making purchases and buying foods and then throwing it all away because it went bad. There are countries that would die for a meal but America throws it away like it’s nothing.  “A sordid boon” is a shameful gain and “This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon” is showing a woman exposed to the heavens. For all of this we are out of tune, and because it does not change anything, William Wordsworth wishes, or would rather be, “A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn.” It is saying that he would rather be raised of the Roman and Greek religion so that he might be able to stand on this pleasant meadow, and see the gods Proteus and Triton. It would make him less forlorn if he could have sight of Proteus rising from the sea or hear Triton blow his horn. He would rather live in the past then live in the here and now when people do not care about the future.