Earth Forgotten
Poetry has always been a powerful way of communicating society’s feelings, concerns, and discomforts without directly stating their inspiration. A good example of such poetry is William Wordsworth’s “The world is too much with us”. This poem expresses concern and disgust for the shameless destruction of our environment and society’s indifference towards it. It is poems like this one that can not be overlooked even as time goes by, since they can still be learned from, due to the powerful wisdom they contain. There is a verse in the poem that states the fact that “we are out of tune” with this world, which is a great analogy to describe the destructive pace of the urbanization process. Even though by the time this poem was being written the human expansionism was not as pronounced as it is today, there were many reasons why Wordsworth could feel im
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Approximate Word count = 587
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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