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A 5 page paper which compares and contrasts these two works by employing standard poetic analysis. No additional sources are used.
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File: TG15_TGworldgod.rtf
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not - contained thinly veiled criticisms of mans intrusion through industrialization upon Gods sacred environment. Two of the most spiritual (and sharply critical) poets of the age were William
Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889). Wordsworths "The World Is Too Much With Us" (1801), and Hopkins "Gods Grandeur" (1877), are in essence two halves of a complete
poetic whole. The shared theme of these works involves mans increasingly separation from the nature as a result of the Industrial Revolutions insistence upon labor to produce what these
poets regarded as frivolous goods and services. In "The World Is Too Much With Us," Wordsworth lamented, The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting
and spending, we lay waste our powers; Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This sea that bares
her bosom to the moon, The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers, For this, for every thing, we are
out of tune; It moves us not. - Great God! Id rather be A pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn (18). In "Gods Grandeur,"
Hopkins solemnly observed, The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of
oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears
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