The World is Too Much With Us

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…This line tells us that the speaker himself might be finding solutions to his own dilemma, by thinking about the fact that if he was raised a pagan he might be able to see these roman gods Proteus and Triton. The structure of the poem is in sonnet form, which poses questions to the reader as well as criticizes at the same time, about how this world is filled with nothing but attractions and distractions.