In the poem The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth presents a newly strained relationship between modern people and nature. In the first eight lines to the poem the speaker presents the situation of modern people. The line "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers" (Wordsworth) demonstrates the greed of modern man and his ability to lay waste to, or destroy nature. The following line "Little we see in Nature that is ours" (Wordsworth) shows how modern man now has little reason to value nature. With the general situation defined, the speaker uses the last six lines to present the favorable alternative. They with for the regression of society into "pagan" times when superstition allowed man to view nature with wonder and awe. Seeing such thing as "Proteus rising from the sea" (Wordsworth) that give purpose to nature.
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