Human Connection With The World - 1022 Words

Human Connection with the World The Nineteenth Century was a period of great economic, social and environmental change. During this period, great poets came forward to make people aware of the surrounding beauty of nature and make them aware of how they had affected the environment. William Wordsworth and Gerard Manley Hopkins were two of the poets during the Nineteenth century who were known for being leading nature poets in British literary history. The poem â€Å"The World is Too Much with Us† by William Wordsworth written during the Romantic Era is very similar to the Victorian poem â€Å"God’s Grandeur† by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Thus, both poems could be compared as they have similar themes of society and nature. Wordsworth and Hopkins express†¦show more content†¦His poem is an overall statement on the state of humanity’s relationship with God—or lack of relationship. Hopkins tone seemed to be sorrowful about the separation from nature, but joyful about the potentia l for resolution. â€Å"The World is Too Much With Us† and â€Å"God’s Grandeur† both begin with the phrase â€Å"The World.† Both the poets Hopkins’s and Wordsworth’s places more importance on the term â€Å"world,† because that signifies to the mankind and its materialism. The mankind is occupied in this world with the material life and the duties, because of which both the poets do not seem to believe the world as simple where the humanity lives. Wordsworth starts his poem for getting the attention of the reader, â€Å"The world is too much with us; late and soon† (1), that points directly to the mankind. He discusses that being humans, we have spent our entire lives focusing on consumerism. The mankind failure to express his feeling towards nature as he is just worrying about the money throughout the life makes the poet annoyed. The Hopkins poem, â€Å"God’s Grandeur† seemed to be start by saying â€Å"The world is charged wi th the grandeur of God† that means the world is the entire of God’s Medium. God has made this beautiful nature, and the glory travels through the air, but the human being has lost the ability to realize. According