allusion

__**Allusion**__  [ // uh -  //  **   loo    ** //  -zh uh  //   n          ]   : An instance of indirect reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication.

__"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!  The 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 wreathed horn.

__Interpretation of "The World Is Too Much With Us"__:

The main idea in "The world is too much with us" is a reflection on the way to focus of most people has changed from realizing the beauty of nature to a general obsession with consumerism. In the first quatrain of the poem is talking about how people have gotten caught up with new ideas, which are mostly about buying new things. He says that people so quickly give into and believe these ideas that they are wasting away their talents and forgetting nature. In the second quatrain Wordsworth talks about the beauties of the earth and that they've gotten less beautiful to everyone, and so we are no longer in tune with nature. In the third quatrain he expresses his exasperation with the world by saying that he rather be outcast so that he could avoid being sucked into the new consumerist ideas that people follow. Because if he was an outcast he could live by himself and go back to being in touch with nature.

__Interpretation of Psalm 34:8__

“O taste and see that the Lord is good” - Psalm 34:8

The point in this verse is that one cannot experience the goodness of God by merely living casually. One must submerge them self into this life to truly experience his goodness. Another point that King David is trying to make is that bad things will happen in life but at the end, God will make every thing right.

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