Ideal Image of Nature in William Wordsworths The World is Too Much With Us :: World Is Too Much With Us

Ideal Image of temperament                The World Is Too frequently with Us by William Wordsworth represents groundbreakinghumanitys lost spiritual connection with genius, in which he believedcould only be preserved in memory.  This poem is a sonnet that throughimages and metaphors offers an angry summation of the theme of communionwith nature.  Wordsworth repeats the fatalistic theme of liberal artsprogress at the cost of preserving nature throughout the sonnet.  Thesymbolism created by the images and metaphors represent Wordsworthsdeep passion about the conflict between nature and modern progress. William Wordsworth was raised amid the mountains in a rustic societyand spent a great deal of his childhood outdoors, in what he would laterremember as a pure communion with nature.  The life style that he led asa child brought him to the belief that, upon being born, human beingsmove from a perfect, idealized realm of nature into the destructiveambition of adult life (Phillips).  Wordsworths deep cynicism to the actualistic ambition of the Industrial Revolution during the earlynineteenth snow is evident in this sonnet.  Images and metaphorsalluding to mankinds greed, natures innocence, and the speakersrejection of accepted principles all serve to illustrate the speakerspassion to save the decadent era of the early 1800s.The first part, the octave, of The World Is Too Much with Us beginswith Wordsworth accusing the modern age of having lost its connection tonature and everything meaningful  Getting and spending, we lay wasteour powers /Little we see in Nature that is ours /We have given ourhearts away, a sordid boon (2-4)  The idea that Wordsworth is tryingto make clear, is that human beings (adults) argon too preoccupied in thematerial value of things (The world&9496getting and spending (1-2)) andhave lost their spiritual connection with Mother Nature (childhood). Little we see in Nature that is ours (3) Wordsworth is expressingthat nature is not a commodity to be exploited by humans, but shouldcoexist with humanity, and We have given our hearts away, a sordidboon (4)  he pronounces that in our materialistic lifestyles, nothingis meaningful anymore.  He says that even when the sea bares her bosomto the moon (5) and the winds howl, humanity is still out of tune. These lines (5-7) suggest that nature is bewildered and unknown to thedestruction man is doing.  For this, for everything, we are out oftune (8) proposes that even in the spectacle of a storm, human beings(adults) look on uncaringly implying that we, humans, dont realize thedamage we are inflicting on helpless nature.