Answer to Question #264012 in English for Ay-moh Lee

Question

How does wordsworth's The world is too much with us and Keats' On the sea both integrate Tomantic concerns of nature and imagination

Answer 1

“The world is too much with us” by William Wordsworth in 1807, is one of the central figures of the English Romantic movement. The poet laments the reduced connection between man and nature. The here blame is pointed at industrial society which has replaced the connection with pursuit of material things like jobs.

"On the Sea" by Keats wrote it while on a vacation on the Isle of Wight in 1817. The speaker says that around the sea there is peace and especially when listening to the whispering of the ocean because it makes someone interact with the mysterious spirit of nature.

The two speakers are generally meaning that interaction with the beauty of nature brings peaceful of mind and the heart also. For example when Wordsworth says that humankind has lost the ability to appreciate, celebrate, and be soothed by nature. When we interact and listen to nature, we get calmed and heartened by its beauty.

The speakers are implying that modern man has lost the ability to think about relationships and emotions in exchange of money. Kaet says that Paying quiet attention to something so big and mysterious offers man a strange kind of healing for instance, the ocean helps people put life into perspective, helping them escape the constant noise of their own thoughts and troubles.