<P> `` 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 . Composed circa 1802 , the poem was first published in Poems , in Two Volumes ( 1807 ) . Like most Italian sonnets , its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter . </P>
central idea of the poem the world is too much with us
criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature