Question

What is the central idea of the poem “the world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth

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Answer:

The central idea of the poem is criticism of the world because of its distance of nature and accepting materialism and the industrial revolution.

The World Is Too Much With Us represents a poem written by William Wordsworth, first published in 1807. In this poem, the author tries to describe how materialism replaced human connections with nature by blaming the industrial revolution for it.

He says humankind lost its capability to appreciate, respect and celebrate nature, as we are controlled by the urban world, loss of time and money. The poem also explains how modern life destroyed the human sense of individuality and states we should never give up on nature, our individualism and fate which shouldn't be based on materialism.