Great Works of Literature II

After reading Wordsworth two poems, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” and “The World Is Too Much with Us,” I realized that he likes using nature in his writing. In both poems, I believe nature is his central theme. However, for me “Line Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” was a lot more difficult to understand but both were pretty difficult.

In “The World is Too Much With Us” he wrote about how humans don’t appreciate what nature has to offer and it reminded me of Pope’s piece. Pope also believed that humans fault was that they were vain in many ways and that they didn’t appreciate what was right in front of them. Also, they wanted more than they needed. I believe that these two pieces have a connection. Both go on about how everything that we need is right here, yet we just look by it and don’t understand the concept of nature and the world.

Wordsworth wrote, “The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…” Humans are too much into themselves and all they want is to feel the pleasure of feeling wanted or wanting others to like them. I feel that Wordsworth has a point in this. When did we ever just sit and look at the world around us and just take everything in. I don’t remember the last time I’ve ever done that. He feels as though living in another time, things would’ve been different. I kind of agree with this because maybe back then when people didn’t have as many things to do they appreciated the world more. However, I also think that humans have always had a selfish side only thinking of themselves. So, maybe humans never really did understand the power of nature and never will.