Q1. Bring out of the central idea of the poem 'The world is too much with us.' [10 Marks]
Answers
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 beA 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 wreathèd horn.
Explanation:
The World Is Too Much with Us" is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Like most Italian sonnets, its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter.
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Answer:
The poem you are referring to was written by William Wordsworth in 1807. Its main theme is the idea that we modern people have become disconnectd and alienated from the world of nature. ... He thinks that it would be better to be a pagan than a modern person because at least then he could be more in tune with nature.