I'm a fan of poetry in general, so i enjoyed reading the selections of Wordsworth over the weekend. However, one piece stuck out in particular to me and that is his "The World is Too Much With Us; Late and Soon." In such a bold passionate outcry, he expresses his disgust with life as it was in his time, how materialistic society had become, 'getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.' He is so disgusted that he wishes he were raised pagan! Think about that for a minute, in Christian England, one didnt often make such a radical wish.
With all this in mind, how much more disgusted would Wordsworth be in todays society? How much farther have we gone down that road to materialism that he warned us about all those years ago? And the real question, how much farther will we go? How long will it take us to realize where we are and decide to make the change?
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Yes, I totally hear you, we have become such a materialistic world. Wordsworth would be even more shocked. We need to make the change, now, today, so the next generation will be better off than us. Good blog.
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