U.S. the World Is, Indeed, Essay

Individuals have become estranged from their true nature and their true self, which is contradictory to the getting and spending.

The tone is pessimistic and somber, with the poet implying that this is not a trend that can be reversed at any time in the future. This is true for the 21st century: mankind has undertaken a road that does not promise its potential return to nature or to the true self of the individual, one in tone and line with the environment it is part of.

It is in the last verses of the poem that Wordsworth gives a true image of what he would like to be or, in other words, where he would like mankind to be. It is in the nature, looking over the meadows and the seas and admiring everything that nature has to offer.However, again, there is a pessimistic tone about it: the word "might" is used in the verse "So might I, standing on this pleasant lea," somehow insinuating that there is a less than 50% chance that this is actually going to happen.

This translates well into the 21st century: mankind has significantly moved away from nature and, because of his actions in the environment, the time might come when none of the elements making up nature would still be available for the individual to see and enjoy. Nature could just disappear, destroyed in the urban mist, toppled by environmental excesses and by an irrational consumption of….....