“The World is Too Much With Us” and “Ozymandias"

We are now in a new era in England. It is called the Romantic Period. How can I describe it? Well, it’s basically like the sixties in America. Six poets were on top of the movement in England. Two of them I will mention in this short essay are William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

In William Wordsworth’s poem, The World is Too Much with Us, is about a place that was once special to him. He looks at it from both a child and adult’s point of view. I think I prefer My Heart Leaps Up, over The World is Too Much with Us.

In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem, Ozymandias, tells of his encounter with a stranger. The stranger seems to be warning him of Ozymandias. It is pretty strange sounding if you ask me.

If one looks back on Alexander Pope’s The Epigrams and “An Essay on Man”, they will note on how different Pope, Wordsworth and Percy Shelley are. How? Pope values reason over emotion in poetry and Wordsworth and Percy Shelley are the opposite. As a writer of feeling, I tend to lean closer toward Wordsworth and Percy Shelley. (Sorry Pope!)