Paving_The_Way_Of_The_World

Paving The Way Of The World The speaker in William Wordsworth’s poem “ The World Is Too Much with US ” is a man who is not pleased with the way people take advantage of the world. He claims that we are too wrapped up in material things that we can not see the natural beauty of the world. Wordsworth portrays the irritation and discouragement of the man through metaphors, apostrophe, and the different meters of the poem. He uses these three techniques to set the tone and enable us to look deeper into the poem. Wordsworth uses metaphors all throughout the poem. The metaphors makes the poem come to life and enables the reader to get a lucid picture of what he’s talking about. The speaker says, “we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon”(4). He is referring to our hearts as the one true thing that nature has given as a blessing. Our hearts are a blessing that we have allowed to corrupt by thinking of the world materialistically. The speaker also makes reference to the world when he says, “ the winds that will be howling at all hours/and are now gathered up like sleeping flowers” (6-7). He means that the world world, poem, speaker, tone, different, wordsworth, says, reader, meters, metaphors, set, people, octave, makes, line, hearts, cd, apostrophe, way, voice, through, though, techniques, sonnet, sestet, scheme, rhyme, problem, pentameter, one, much, man, making, let, know