Paraphrase – in your own words, not those of someone on the Internet – “The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth. Paraphrase the poem line by line. You should have 14 lines of prose in your own words. Pay close attention to the details – look up Proteus, for example, if you do not know who he is.
After your paraphrase, write a paragraph summarizing how the speaker of the poem wants to live and what he hates about the way people live around him.
Using the picture of Christian life established in Romans 12, explain where the poem’s vision aligns with the Christian life and where it deviates from the biblical model.
