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 wreathed horn.
Summary :
The speaker complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it. We're so concerned about time and money that we use up all our energy. People want to accumulate stuff, so they see nothing in Nature that they can "own." According to the speaker, we've sold our souls.
We should be able to appreciate beautiful events like the moon shining over the ocean and the blowing of strong winds, but it's like we're on a different wavelength from Nature. We're kind of like, "Eh."
The speaker would rather be a pagan who worships an outdated religion so that when he gazes out on the ocean (as he's doing now), he might feel less sad. If he were a pagan, he'd see wild mythological gods like Proteus, who can take many shapes, and Triton, who looks like a mer-man.
Don't you guys agree with this too? Sometimes we forget about a little thing but precious in our life, we forget how beautiful it is to wake up in the morning and see the sun rise, we forget how good it feels when the wind blow, and how beautiful our nature.. People only care about money and stuff. They don't care what happen to our nature if they can get what they want.. Aren't we so selfish? we only care about our self, we don't care about things around us.. Don't you ashamed? we Can't live without our nature, we live from it nut we never take the responsibility to keep it save and we never give our time to appreciate it.. We already be PEOPLE who progress such a high technology but mentality we even worse than people that live thousand years ago..
I just want to say, take our times guys and start to appreciate our nature don't be so obsessed with money and stuff.. You can't buy your happiness nor peace with money, Our Nature need our Help,, we should start to pay back what we take from it..
