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9: English > The World Is Too Muchwith Us 🌍 > Flashcards

The World Is Too Muchwith Us 🌍 Flashcards

1
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The world is too much with us

A

Repetition of the title to reinforce key idea

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Too much

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An excess of something, surplus

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Collective pronouns

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Doing and affecting
In all in this together as human kind

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Getting and spending

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Reference to consumerism and materialism

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We lay waste our powers

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We as humans have the power and ways to contribute to this world and we waste them

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Waste

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Tragic
Disappointment
Criticise directly

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Late and soon

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Past and future

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First half =

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Problem

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Second half =

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Solution

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We give out hearts away a sordid boon

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Something has been lost/ we have lost what is important
Love creativity freedom community
Which are romantic ideals

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A sordid boon

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Economic term = bonus
Yet an immoral bonus

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Sea moon winds flowers

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Nature

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Sea bosom flowers moon

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Feminine connotations imply our connection to nature due to the lunar/menstrual cycle
Idea : more part of nature than urbanisation

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We are out of tune

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Not in sync with nature

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Great god

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Passionate expression
Romantic
Emphasis deeply affects him as a romantic

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A pagan suckled in a creed outworn

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Religion that preceded Christianity and based on nature
Creed being religion
Outworn = no longer popular

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Lea

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Meadow

18
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Make me less forlorn

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Make me happier

19
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Proteus Triton

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Greek mythology links

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Structure

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Sonnet

21
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Last 2 lines

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Allusions to God —> spiritual

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Message

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Directly critiques the way we go about interacting with nature and we shouldn’t waste it as we are more part of nature than industrialisation
Problem and solution —: romanticism promoting their ideologies as a way to better society

23
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Tone

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Mournful
Lamentation

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