Getting and spending we lay waste our powers :WORDSWORTH

Little we see in nature that is ours; we have given our hearts away ,a sordid boon The world is too much with us .It is a criticism of life in this modern mechanical world. the poem laments the fact that people have become too materialistic and indifferent to the beauties of nature. They have given their hearts away to the god of money and lost all interest in the beauties of nature. the beautiful scenes of nature don't move them. He believed that all the ills of word are a result of man's disassociation from nature. Man has become a worshipper of mammon, he says that he would rather be a pagan then be a Christian ,if he were a pagan he could experience the presence of Gods and Goddesses in nature .he could see Proteus rise from the sea and hear Triton blow his wrathed horn. Wordsworth was a great lover of nature. Thus the poet has used Greek mythology. The world is indeed too much with us.