he finds them distracting and annoying. he finds them dangerous and frightening. he finds them surprising and strange.

Answer: to me alone it is a time of pause. This is the line of the poem that best states how the speaker feels.

Anyway, here is the answer. The effect of beginning the poem by focusing on how “some men” find all their inspiration in nature is this: It allows the speaker to set up the contrast to his or her own views.

“The Sun Has Long Been Set” focuses on time to think at the end, while “Summer” expresses joy. “The Sun Has Long Been Set” expresses misery at the end, while “Summer” focuses on death. “The Sun Has Long Been Set” focuses on death at the end, while “Summer” expresses misery.

In the first poem, “The Sun Has Long Been Set”, in one of the last few lines, it says ‘On such a night of June’. June is a month in the season of Summer, therefore, the answer is Summer.

When he speaks of being a pagan “suckled in a creed outworn,” he seems to be reflecting that his own religious creed taught to him in childhood is also outworn. The sea is calm tonight. The spectacle makes him think about religion and about pagan times. This vision is where Wordsworth wishes to be a pagan.

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.

Metaphor: There are two metaphors used in this poem. One of the metaphors is in the tenth line, “Suckle in a creed outworn.” Here creed represents mother that nurses her child. Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in the same line such as /o/ sound in “Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”.

Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. “The World Is Too Much with Us” is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature.

By William Wordsworth He thinks we have given our hearts away and eventually exclaims, “Great God!” The tone of the poem is elegiac (it’s like a poem mourning the dead) and near the end the speaker tells us he is “forlorn” – depressed at what he sees – and would rather be a pagan so that he wouldn’t feel so sad.

Petrarchan sonnet

Diction: The diction in this poem perfectly captures the feeling that Wordsworth is trying to convey. Using words like boon and pagan do a good job of creating a negative feeling for the reader. If he were in fact a pagan than he could see something that would make him feel less lonely and sad (“forlorn”).

Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. The poem opens with a complaint, saying that the world is out of whack and that people are destroying themselves with consumerism (“getting and spending”).

Sonnets are fourteen-line poetic inventions written in iambic pentameter. There are several varieties of sonnets; “The world is too much with us” takes the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, modeled after the work of Petrarch, an Italian poet of the early Renaissance.

In William Wordsworth’s sonnet “The World Is Too Much with Us” the speaker conveys his frustration about the state in which he sees the world. Throughout the poem the speaker emphatically states his dissatisfaction with how out of touch the world has become with nature.

Lines 17-18 Apparently, the speaker doesn’t think that he fully appreciated the vision at the time. This is a bit odd, because he seems to be really enjoying those daffodils. The word “wealth” expresses a more permanent kind of happiness.