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...
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