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The World Is Too Much with Us
By William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature tha...

介绍： 真的好久没更新啦！
这是用新麦克风做完整节目的第一期~献给永远逃不掉的Wordsworth：）
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The World Is Too Much with Us
By William Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
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!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. --Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
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.

1.William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Interest in the life and speech of “common people” during the contact with French Revolution
- His joint publication “Lyrical Ballads” with Samuel Taylor Coleridge marked the birth of Romanticism in English literature.
- “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”

威廉·华兹华斯（1770-1850）是英国浪漫主义诗人的代表。年轻时曾目睹法国大革命，因此对平民的生活和语言产生了兴趣，所以他的诗歌语言和风格比较朴实易懂。华兹华斯和另一位浪漫主义先驱塞缪尔·柯立芝共同出版《抒情歌谣集》，标志着浪漫主义的崛起。华兹华斯认为“所有的好诗都是强烈情感的自然流露，诗人应从平静中得到这种情感。”从这里就能看出华兹华斯对“自然”的追求。

2.The Lake poets
- The Lake poets: a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England in the first half of the nineteenth century
- Three main figures of “the Lake Poets”: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey
- A tourist attraction today: Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Lake District

湖畔诗人指19世纪初期居住在英格兰湖区的一群诗人，主要是浪漫主义诗人。三位核心人物分别是：威廉·华兹华斯，塞缪尔·柯立芝，罗伯特·骚塞。今天，湖区的华兹华斯故居“鸽屋”是著名的旅游景点，之前去英国的时候专门去过湖区，看到那里的湖和层层叠叠的白云时瞬间就能理解湖畔诗人为什么爱湖区了。

3.The World Is Too Much with Us (1802)
- Reflects upon men’s relationship to nature
E.g. “sea”, “winds” - represent the power of nature which people no longer respected
- Criticizes materialism in the First Industrial Revolution
E.g. “Little we see in Nature that is ours” - greediness
“ a sordid boon” - oxymoron. “Sordid” means immoral or dishonest, while “boon” is a blessing. Acknowledges benefits brought by machinery, but still criticizes them.
- Whose central theme can even be applied to the modern society
E.g. Social-networking sites? Technology? (My EPS experience)

回到这首诗本身。创作于1802年的“The World Is Too Much with Us”反思了第一次工业革命下人与自然的关系。诗人认为人与自然的距离越来越疏远，人也不再敬畏自然的力量。其中写到大海与风，代表了人们现已不再畏惧的自然力量。“Little we see in Nature that is ours” 点出人们的贪婪，想将自然中的一切都据为己有。“ a sordid boon” 是一个冤亲词，“sordid”是不道德、不诚实的意思，而“boon”则是恩赐，所以诗人表达了一种比较矛盾的态度，一方面也承认工业革命带来的好处，但另一方面仍然觉得这种恩赐是有害的，因为它破坏了人与自然的关系。个人觉得这首诗的主题也完全可以应用在当代社会，比如现代人离不开的网络？Is it a sordid boon?

More about Wordsworth: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-wordsworth

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