On a primary level, William Wordsworth conveys in this poem that people do not appreciate nature and do not think of it as their own. Nature is not thought of as important even though it should be. Line 3 states "Little we see in nature that is ours." which shows that the poet believes that people in general don't believe that nature belongs to us. Most people don't see that we have a responsibility towards nature and should respect it. The poet believes that we should be moved by images of the sea, the moon and the wind. People fail to notice these things and see the beauty this is around them.
On a secondary level, the poem shows that people are focused on the wrong priorities in life and need to focus on their feelings and the world around us. There are so many things that are happening in life that people end up loosing sight of what is important and what is not. Line 2 states "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;". This line means that people spend their entire lives trying to acquire and use things. We as people tend to waste our strength and time to get things that are not as important as we make them out to be instead of being grateful for what we already have. Lines 8 to 10 say "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;". Wordsworth says that people are out of tune for not appreciating nature's beauty and that it means nothing to us. He is upset by this thought and says that he would rather be a believer of a no longer acceptable or outdated belief than subscribe to the selfish ways of the world in present times.
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