What is the poet's style in the poem, The World Is Too Much With Us?

Wordsworth uses ornate and flowery language throughout the poem, a classic hallmark of English Romanticism. While words and phrases such as “sordid boon,” “creed outworn,” and “pleasant lea,” are typical of the literary time period however, they are not necessarily typical of spoken language from this era (4, 10-11). This is to say that the diction of the text is fairly elevated relative to social norms and does not accurately represent how people actually spoke during Wordsworth’s time. The author’s poetic diction is further separated from conversational diction in its use of inverted phrases and sentence structures for the sake of meter and rhyme. For example, the use of the word “up-gathered” is not one you would typically see used in daily conversation, however, for Wordsworth’s purposes, the word works much better rhythmically in the poem than simply saying “gathered up” (7).