Within this sonnet, Wordsworth uses those abilities to motivate readers of the nineteenth century and future generations to take heed of their worldly desires and look at Nature not only in the earthly sense but also in the context of human nature. ... The sonnet follows an iambic pentameter until it reaches the expression "Great God!" ... It appears that Wordsworth purposely broke the lyrical rhythm of the sonnet with this exclamation to show his readers how passionately he felt about the disregard of Nature. ... In the sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us" the poet contrasts Nature with the...

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Nothing in nature moves us. ... A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem, the origins of which are attributed to the Italian poet Petrarch. In English, there are two types of sonnets, the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean, both containing fourteen lines. Wordsworth's poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, developed by the Italian poet Petrarch. A Petrarchan sonnet consists of an eight-line stanza called an octave and six-line stanza (sestet). ...

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This poem takes the form of a sonnet and it is a form used mostly for love poems. Why use a sonnet to write a poem in which you criticise people for being lustful, greedy and destructive? ... This "bare" image of nature, pertains not just to man's destruction of nature, but to his spiritual bareness. ... "And for all this, nature is never spent." ... God through his infinite mercy continues to sustain and rejuvenate nature, with nature representing the physical nature and the human spirit so that we may continue to live in hope. ...

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The greatest example of this is in William Wordsworth's sonnet, "The World Is Too Much With Us". ... reinforces the fact that mankind is jaded by materialism, thus they are destroying nature instead of embracing it. ... As we cannot live without a heart, the poet has been able to effectively deliver the message, that by destroying nature, mankind is destroying their very own existence. Poetry allows the reader to step away from the haste of everyday life, so that to take time to embrace in nature. ... This message is further conveyed with the repetition of "No time- as it compels th...

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The story that the speaker tells in the poem portrays all his emotions brought from nature. ... The structure, language and the sound devices, support the theme of "I wandered lonely as a cloud" which is satisfaction and inspiration coming from nature, that is one of the main principles of Romanticism. ... The last two lines of each stanza rhyme like the end of a Shakespearean sonnet, this makes each stanza to look separate. ... "I wandered lonely as a cloud" is one of the best examples of poems in Romanticism, because it focuses on nature and all the beauty of the plant...

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