The World Is Too Much With Us -Poem #4

The world is too much with us; late and soon,

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—

Little we see in Nature that is ours;

We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;

The winds that will be howling at all hours,

And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;

For this, for everything, we are out of tune;

It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;

So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,

Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;

Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

In the poem The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth even though it was short it had a lot of meaning. I feel like it means that we take life for granted. In the part "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;- little we see in Nature that is ours," the author makes it seem that we have powers, like we have a meaning on this Earth, which we do. We have the power to change the world, change a life, change anything we want because that's what us humans do. We were meant to do something, like how people become doctors to help patients become better. Children look at adults as heros for the great things they do but what do us adults do? We don't look at ourselves that great. But why do we take things for granted? Why don't we watch the sunset and become busy with work? Why do we want high school and college to end already to do a career were going to he doing for the rest of our lives? This is what society has made us become; we can't experience life anymore because were so worried about the next step when we should just be in the now. The narrator uses words like nature to emphasize the key points of the poem which when reading through, they discuss that they would rather "have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn," then to waste their life doing nothing. I could agree with this because as I stated before, we waste our time waiting for the future and not just taking it day by day which we should be.