the world is not too much with us
...t human beings have lost their appreciation for nature. Reverting to the lifestyle of the ancient Greeks is the solution suggested for the problem in the sestet. The poem begins by describing how humans abuse the earth. Lines two and three state “Getting and spending, we lay waste our power;/Little we see in Nature that is ours.” These lines refer to the materialism of people. Because of trad Wordsworth's pantheistic conception of nature, begins, as always, with appreciation of it in its most sublime and, indeed, violent forms. The things he says must be admired. This "sea that bares her bosom to the moon" and "the winds that will be howling at all hours" are very violent images, and their harshness is emphasized by the alliteration of the hard 'b' sound in the first line and the aspirated ...