Examples Of Alienation In The World Is Too Much With Us

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In The World Is Too Much With Us, by William Wordsworth, the speaker is saying that humanity and nature are so far away from each other that they are alienated from one another. In the first line the poem “The world is too much with us, we lay waste our power:” The speaker is also trying to say that we have lost the ability to feel. Right now, humanity is just too busy and has no time for this natural world and that the natural world is just “too much” nobody has time for it. The speaker is irritated with the people who do not take time to appreciate the beauty in the world as he does. The poem goes on about man’s alienation from nature and how man is no longer influenced by nature. The speaker then says that he wishes he could be a pagan.

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