William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us"
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Where was William Wordsworth born?
Cumberland, a famous scenic region in England also reffered to as the Lake District.
How many siblings did William Wordsworth have?
Four
When did William Wordsworth lose his parents?
He lost his mother at a young age, followed by the death of his father a few years later.
What school did William Wordsworth attend, and what did he acccomplish there?
He attended Hawkshead school and was able to indulge in nature in addition to his fine education.
Why did Wordsworth become disenchanted with his studies at St. John’s College? What did he do instead?
The competitive nature of his studies ; he found solace in an extended summer walking tour of Revolutionary France in 1790.
Who did he develop allegiances with during this time?
The revolutionaries fighting against the Ancien Regime for social and economic equality.
The french revolution had an impact on what?
Wordsworth’s early work and the romantic period in general
What group is Wordsworth a part of?
The lake poets
Where did the Lake poets live?
The lake district (present Cumbria, England)
When were the Lake poets established?
the early 19th century
Who were the members of the lake poets?
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
What defined the lake poets?
Geographic location and subject of their poetry
Did the lake poets succumb to any collective view?
No
WHat was the main subject of the lake poets poetry?
The surrounding lakes and the relationship between man and nature in general.
Who critiqued the lake poets and what for?
Lord Byron; critiqued what he considered their narrow poetic scope and poets’ abandonment of radical politics in their later years
What was a main feature of Wordsworth’s poems that contradicted popular poetry of the proceeding periods?
He represented common folk as his subjects and uses vernacular language in his poetry.
What organization is known to have a painting of William Wordsworth?
British National Trust
What can Wordsworth’s poems be seen as a response to?
The scientific rationalization of nature during the Enlightment period.
Wordsworths poems reflect what?
A desire to deeply connect with nature and individual imagination as well as revolt against aristocratic social and political norms.
What was Wordsworth interested in observing about aristocratic social and political norms?
how they didn’t treat nature or people ethically.
What are examples of wordsworth’s poems?
Michael and The Prelude
Why did Wordsworth critisize the industrial revolution?
Its treatment of its workers and despoliation of nature.
The introduction of what upset Wordsworth?
trains
The world is too much with us is an example of what?
a sonnet
An English sonnet is written in fourteen lines of what?
iambic pentameter
The world is too much with us is also an example of a what?
a petraarcha sonnet
What is a petrarchan sonnet?
A sonnet in which its last six lines (setset) provide an answer to the first eight lines (octave)
Where were sonnets popular?
Elizabethan England
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?
150 English Sonnets
How does the Italian/petrarchan sonnet differ from a Shakespearean sonnet?
A Shakespearean sonnet features 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet to answer or provide a solution to the problem in the earlier lines.
What is the volt?
A “turn” in a poem
Wordsworth poem comments on what?
Humanity’s alienation from nature (a common theme in romantic poetry)
What context was the World is too Much with us situated in?
Industrial revolution
The speaker suggests that people have become consumed with what?
Material goods and they no longer recognize the beauty inherent in nature.
What words are juxtaposed in line 4?
Sordid and boon
What does this juxtaposition suggest?
The advantages provided by the availability of material goods are overshadowed by humanities loss of wonder at the world.
What other genre can the poem be seen as and why?
An elegy, since it laments the disconnect between humans and nature as humans have come to favor the artificial.
What figure of speech does Wordsworth use to appeal to God in line 9?
An apostrphe
Wordsworth alludes to what In order to seek solace?
Greek gods associated with the sea.
What does this reflect?
A further lamentation at the loss of societies spiritual connection to nature
He personifies this how? In what line?
IN line 5 he references the seas as a woman.
It was typical to reference mother nature as what during ht romantic time period?
Mother Nature
What is wordsworths main concern?
That people have become out of tune with nature and will suffer because of it.