The World is Too Much with Us

The World is Too Much with Us (William Wordsworth)

1. 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. 
These lines have been taken from the sonnet, The World is Too Much with Us, composed by Wordsworth. Here the poet deplores (f) the blind worship of material wealth. He has to say that people have become too worldly-minded. They waste their energies in the acquisition () of wealth and fame. They have no love for Nature.
The poet prays God and says that it would be a blessing to him, if he were born and reared up (पालन-पोषण करना) as a pagan in one of the old creeds. He means to say that when man has lost all touch with Nature, he has ceased to have a spiritual life and his christianity has become a pretence. If so he would prefer to have faith in the pantheistic paganism of ancient Greece. Christianity believes in one God, while paganism believes each force or power of Nature to be presided over by a deity (am). If the poet were a pagan, he might then stand on the sea-shore and feel that he was in the presence of sea-deities. He could almost see sea-god Proteus rising out of the sea or hear another god of Greek mythology, Triton blow his conch shell.
These two examples have been given by the poet to show the ‘Pantheistic Paganism’ of ancient Greece, to show that there are gods and goddesses in almost all objects of nature.
2. This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours.
These lines have been taken from the sonnet, The World is too much with us, composed by William Wordsworth. In this poem the poet deplores the blind worship of material wealth. In the concerned lines, the poet says that the world is out of whack and that people are destroying themselves with consumerism. The poet elaborates on man’s alienation from nature, claiming that humanity is no longer susceptible to the influence of the sea, the wind and everything else in nature. The speaker is elegantly describing the ways in which ocean tides are affected by the moon, or just how the sea appears to him in its relationship with the moon. Lastly the poet says that if he were pagan he might then stand on the sea-shore and feel that he was in the presence of sea- deities.

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