Wordsworth and Frost

Nature and the Individual

One's relationship with nature is a theme that has been explored often in poetry and across global borders. In "The World is Too Much With Us," William Wordsworth writes about the disconnect that individuals have with nature and a desire to reestablish a relationship with it. On the other hand, in "The Road Not Taken," Robert Frost looks to nature in order to help him to make life decisions and uses it as inspiration for the future. Wordsworth and Frost use nature as a means of defining whom they are and what they choose to do.

In "The World is Too Much With Us," Wordsworth feels as though people have become disconnected from nature and wishes that he could find a way to reconnect. Wordsworth laments, "The world is too much with us; late and soon,/Getting and spending, we lay wasted our powers:...
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