"The World is Too Much With Us"

One of Wordsworth's darker poems, "The World is Too Much With Us" was written around 1806. Even though it was written more than two centuries ago, the meaning of the poem rings true today, even maybe eerily more so. In the poem, Wordsworth condemns the materialistic world. He is disgusted by the waste and destruction of the beautiful nature around the people that was occurring daily. In society today people try more and more to call attention to the deteriorating earth exactly as Wordsworth did in this poem.

It's hard to imagine that back in Wordsworth's time, the 1800s, the people still had a problem with destroying nature and being wasteful. Materialism was another of Wordsworth's gripes with mankind back in the day. Unfortunately, I would leap to say that it's most likely gotten worse as of now. Global warming, whether you believe in it or not, has become sort of undeniable at this point. Waste and greed is a big problem  worldwide. It's just amazing to me that Wordsworth knew what he was talking about so eloquently over two hundred years ago. It's just unfortunate that not more people have heeded his message and taken the initiative to lessen their impact on the earth. Without some kind of action taken soon (or perhaps rather action NOT taken), there will be no nature left to admire as Wordsworth once did himself.