The World Is Too Much With Us By William Wordsworth

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Intro: It’s 4 O’clock and it’s time for “The Beat Goes On” a program where I explore and dig through phenomenal pieces of poetry from present day to the past. (Part 2) Poetry is a verbal or visual representation of one’s inner thoughts of their surroundings and emotions. Utilising emotive language is what poets are able to motivate, inspire, reflect, empathise and evoke powerful emotions upon their readers. On today’s show, we will be analysing William Wordsworth’s poem “The world is too much with us” and The Black Eyed Pea’s song “Where is the love.” Both pieces adequately present their perspective on the corruption of men and their inhumane acts which is reflective of their time.
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The use of Alliteration, metaphors, Personifications and Similes elaborates on man’s alienation from nature and claiming that humanity is no longer susceptible to the influence of the environment. Alliteration is throughout most of the first half of the poem. In line two Wordsworth write “The world is too much with us” and in line 5 “bears her bosom” which was related back to how man are blind and don’t see the beauty of the world. Cleverly using metaphor to make sure his audience relate to what his presenting. For example in line 10 he writes “suckled in a creed outworn” in this passage creed is relating to a mother nursing her child. With also conjunction of personification and similes, William relating one thing to another but making sure that it impact the readers …show more content…

Even the listeners mindlessly listening to the song, can easily put together what is the main message uphold by the Black Eyed Peas. Written afters the events of 9/11, the main significance of the song evolved around the cynicism people had towards the government, starvation, greed, rampant consumerism racism and violence. The group propose that love and peace will resolve the world’s problems, although still not certain if love and peace still exist in a world gone made. Just as Wordsworth saw vividly saw how humanity neglected the environment, the Blacked Eyed Peas saw through the pain and frustration of people who are discriminated and violently

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