Tuesday 6 December 2011

TPCASTT of "The World Is Too Much With Us"

Title
The title let's the reader foresee, that the poem explains the consequences of human being on the earth.

Paraphrase
The first six lines of the poem, talk about today's society, which has lost it's connection to nature and is ruled my money and materialism. Even when the winds howl and the sea "bares her bosom to the moon", humanity is still too blind to see the importance and beauty of nature.
Wordsworth would even prefer to be a pagan, who has a different and more respectful point of view and might see the old gods.

Connotation
"The World Is Too Much With Us" is written as an petrarchan sonnet, so the first eight lines are called the octave, are written in an ABBAABBA rhyme scheme and introduce the problem as the consequences of human being on earth. With a change in tone and rhyme scheme - CDCDCD - the sestet builds the last six lines by applying the comment that he would rather be a "pagan suckled  in a creed outworn", so that he might have the chance to see the old world with it's gods than be one of the people who forgot the importance of nature. His diction is aggressive and provocative. "Upgathered  like sleeping flowers" demonstrates the change of the "winds that will be howling at all hours". It's an image for noise created by human and the end of nature's harmony. His point of view is that the world would be better without external influence and he uses allusion to refer to the old gods who used to rule in balanced harmony.

Attitude
The author's attitude is very cynical, though he's a big admirer of nature since he was little. He feels left outside and lonely with his request and denounces his fellow men of betrayal.

Shifts
In the ninth line is the major shift, when the speaker expresses the wish to be a pagan, so he can relate to the old world again.

Title II
After analysing the poem you can still recognize that the major theme is about the bad human influence on nature, but you get a better view on the topic from the eyes of the author. There's a new insight on a solution as a pagan, an outcast who lives for nature.

Theme
The speaker excruciates the humans for the destruction of nature, hence the world, as they don't care about it.

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