THE WORLD IS TOO WITH US by William Wordsworth is a poem that warrants its own Wikipedia entry….The meaning according to them is about man’s increasing destruction of the natural world and his only on focusing on the material.
This is undoubtedly what Wordsworth had when he wrote this but I can also find another meaning in it.
When Wordsworth writes the line “Little we see in nature that is ours”, he is talking about mankind’s rejection of its origins with the earth in favor of the consumerist lifestyle….Here I daresay he was talking about the beginning of the industrial revolution but it could also be talking about one’s own mind.
We lose control over our thought processes and focus just on our day to day lives losing track of who we are….We do need to focus on life in order to improve and I’m not suggesting one slips into a state of non-reality and daydreams but we also need time to clear our mind to make room for other priorities but also to strengthen our mind through meditation and other techniques.
When I was younger, people always told me I think too much meaning that I tended to over intellectualize things or worry rather than just let things happen or as Nike says “Just do it”. …”We lay waste to our powers” in this way….We become free if we don’t get too hung up on the daily grind.
Here’s the poem….
http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/wordsworth.html
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