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The World Is Too Much With Us Figurative Language

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Both “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth and “God’s Grandeur” by Gerard Manley Hopkins demonstrate the idea that the Earth is too great for the way humans as a whole treat it. However, they are differentiated by the way each author presents the idea and through assorted types of figurative language in addition to imagery. In “The World Is Too Much With Us”, the author uses onomatopeias such as ‘boom’, which provide a sense of imagery through sounds. Similarly, imagery is found in “God’s Grandeur” but the author uses oil and fire for example, substances you can picture in your head creating a different type of imagery. Both poems use these descriptions to create a scene for the reader to understand that the world was created
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