Reading between the lines of William Wordsworth's poem'' The World Is Too Much With Us; late and soon.

 

                    Literature shapes human conscious-ness with environment and romanticism  shows and paves the way for dwelling in nature, particularly, and in the world, generally. As it seems, the way of our dwelling, existence, in nature based on materialistic one, we do not care or pay attention to our expoloitation and devastation  of nature, source of inspiration, which showed that we lost a sense of dwelling. Ostensibly, this kind of dwelling is founded in one of the romantic poems which titled ‘’The World Is Too Much With Us‘’by William Wordsworth, the poet of nature. Before delving on the main discussion, I shall examine that this poem shows the relationship between man and nature which based on materialistic one, also, because this relationship had been previously  harmonized due to the industrialisation; compendiously, lost the sense of dwelling and lost the sense of one-ness between man and nature.

              To start the discussion with our relationships with nature which based on mateialistic one, haunted by industrialisation. That is,William wordsworth ,the harbigner of nature or the high priest of nature and the worshipper of nature, is angrily criticising our excistence in the world which based on exploitation all the time because we lost our consciousness, our exictence as mortals and the essential environment, perhaps and not surprisingly, we give something harm to nature and exploit it, and little we see in nature that is ours and, obviously, we are tremendiously exploiting it; getting and spending from it. From another view point, the relationship between nature and human based on consumption, pr-esumably, we lose our time and energy by getting and spending:; neglecting our powers and destroying our own potential for pursuit of money and desire for material possessions which all these indicate that we, as human beings, are really influenced and haunted by industrial capitalism. Hence, Wordsworth is disappointed with the modern man’s, who lives in a world i.e.,haunted by materialism and technology, passive treatment of nature and  shows clearly that man is banished from the natural elements of Nature, for example in this loveable  poem ,the poet of nature says ''this sea that bares her bosom to the moon and the winds that will be howling at all hours also for this, for everything, we are out of tune, in it, the poet shows  our present, apparently, is very harmful to the nature and actually the idea of taking things from place to place; that is, we are destroying it as consumerism which lead us to think out of the tune. And Wordsworth, himself, condemns the growing materialistic and consumerism age when men have become money minded and are totally unaware of true happiness which will be  founded only by loving Nature, the source of inspiration, but we lost the interconnectedness between us and nature when we had linked our hearts with materialism and industrialisation .

             As was stated with regard to the idea of interconnectedness between us and nature which  had been previously  harmonized. As it seems, man was considered himself as part of nature and related  to it because, as we know, it is the source of inspiration that will heal human’s sorrows. And, ostensibly, in the past the natural condition of mankind: there were no government, no civilization, no laws, no common power and man was able to see himself as part of the vast and  mysterious natural universe but this, off course, after we haunted and influenced by chaotic industrialisation. William Wordsworth says that we are much engrossed in worldly affairs, constantly think about the world, and we become preocuppied with business and profession. Add to this, we are devastating and degrading our ecosystem and spend all our energies in earning and spending money. But, off course, we have little time to appreciate beauty of  nature, source of joy and delight, which provides us true and everlasting peace and happiness. Moreover, nature gives us perfect education to develop our mind and health, but we have given our hearts to worldly material gains or exploitation of nature and this leads it to be ignored, excluded, objectivized, and dehumanized. In this way, our existence in the world become materialistic existence because we are capable of things wherever we do this existence in the world. Our interconnectedness and worship to land, A pagan suckled in a creed outworn, Wordsworth said,  is much more reduced by the new technology and leads our relationships with nature to be materialistic one and, certainly, the disconnection between humans and nature.

             In this poem ,the world is too much with us; late and soon, when wordsworth vividly describes our existence in the world that we lay waste our powers, now like sleeping flowers, we are out of tune all are showing that we had lost sense of dwelling in nature and ,seemingly, dwelling, as heidegger’s etymology tells us, is the mode of existence peculiar to humans and, most importantly, it is the proper name of the very being of mortals which means to remain, to stay in place. However, also means at the same time to cherish and to protect; to preserve and to care for and cultivate the earth in order to be amalgamated with our environments. Correspondingly, this is the case in wordsworth’s poem; we had lost this sense of dwelling, we do not care anymore about nature as a source of inspiration, our existence become materialistic one, and we depend upon the earth and  all the time towards making our living affects nature and, without any further doubt, our work affects it. In this way, we lost the one-ness in nature which shows that we are enjoying it not caring for it as part of us.

             Throughout the previous reading of one of the romantic poem ‘’ ’The World Is Too Much With Us, it seems  that wordsworth’s poem presents the relationship between us and Nature which  based on materialistic one: we do not care anymore about nature and consider it as source of inspiration and this relationship, once flourished, had been previously harmonized, and man was considering himself as part of the vast or in other words as part of nature and Wordsworth remind the readers of rural, idylic life where man lived in harmony and accord with the environment. But, unfortunately, this relationship  has been changed due to industrialisation which leads the  modern man who lives in the world i.e, haunted and influenced by technology and materialism. In short, this loveable poem can be  a good justification that shows our relationship with nature. It has been changed due to lose of the sense of one-ness and dwelling on the earth. All in all, the reader would be ecologically informed of the values William wordsworth inspired in them and therefore better contribute to their ecological thinking in the hope of respecting, caring, cheriching, saving , and preserving nature.