knowing through the heart
...tains ironies that look into what Wordsworth is thinking. In his poem, he spoke his daughter can still hear him, when in fact, she is dead. He comments, “Have I been so beguiled as to be blind to my most grievous loss?” He asks himself if, because of his great love for his daughter. The poem begins with the feelings of joy, but toward the end, death. All he has left is a memory, and realizes that he never again will he see his daughter’s face. “That neither present time, nor years unborn/ Could to my sight that heavenly face restore.” Wordsworth confused feelings of his daughter death is ironic and give a better idea how he is really feeling. Instead of feelings of joy and sorrow, Wordsworth expresses bitterness in his poem, “The World is too much with Us.” His bitterness is toward the world today, and how people have become out of touch with Nature. He says, “We have given our hearts aw...