Sonnet Handout

Good Afternoon Everyone,

Thank you for your stimulating contributions today on William Wordsworth's sonnet, "The world is too much with us." I enjoyed hearing the connections you observed between the socio-historical contexts of indsutrialization and this primary Romantic-period text.

Below you will find the sheet on sonnets that I had up on the overhead.

Best of luck with your readings and preparations for the upcoming test, scheduled to take place during our tutorial next Monday, January 31.

Ciao,
Ada


EN246Sonnets_Handout

Hello Everyone,

Michaela and I are also presenting on Monday on Industrialization and William Wordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us." We will give a brief summary of what Industrialization is and then we will be relating the Industrial Revolution to both the poem we are discussing in tutorial and the poems for Wednesday's lecture. Below is a link we have found that summarizes and analyzes the poem "The World is Too Much With Us" which we will go over in tutorial and we will also supply this kind of summary for the other poems that we feel fit with the theme of Industrialization.

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/WorldIsTooMuch.html

“The World is Too Much With Us” is a poem describing the negative aspects of industrialization. The poem praises nature and points out how the rise in materialism, productivity and commercial activity reduced one’s admiration of nature. For example in the poem it says that: “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!” (Black et al. 2008:142). We will discuss the contents of this poem and why this quote and others specifically relate to industrialization in our presentation tomorrow.

http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/tuttle.labor.child.britain

This website contains information regarding child labour during industrialization in England, and how children were exploited in large factories for cheap labour. This relates to "The World is Too Much With Us" because Wordsworth discusses the negative impacts of industrialization and how it caused damange to humans (especially people that were exploited in factories).

We look forward to discussing this information in depth with you on Monday.

Works Cited

Eds. Black, Jose, Leonard Collony, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome xxxxJ, McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, Claire Waters. The Broadview Anthology xxxxof British Literature, Concise Edition, Volume B. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, xxxx2008.

Randi & Michaela

"The World is Too Much With Us"

Hello there,
Alexandra and I are presenting on Monday for the William Wordsworth poem "The World is Too Much Within Us" and I found online an interesting and helpful start to understanding the poem:

http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/wordsworth.html

This link will not only give you a bit of background on the poem concerning some of Wordsworth's themes and literary ideologies but will also help to clarify some of the references that should come in handy when we analyze the poem on Monday.

I hope you find it useful and that it helps to clarify some of Wordsworth's poem, the rest we'll take a look at in Monday as a class.

Cheers, Alexa and Alexandra.