way Technology has changed Man Hopkins and Wordsworth
Where can’t we go with technology today? William Wordsworth, a quaint man from the late 18th century and early 19th century, understood the need for change in this world and expressed a pre-mature concern for the future that still applies to this very day in "The world is too much with us". Gerald Hopkins, a poet from the later 19th century, expressed many of same ideas and philosophies as Wordsworth in "Gods Grandeur". Their main points were that mans continuous journey towards the future has led us to forget our roots. Though how could two poets from two different lifestyles, Wordsworth the revolutionary and Hopkins the Jesuit, come up with the same basic ideas? They both showed that our continuous journey towards the future has led us to forget our roots as shown by our destruction of nature, by the way the Industrial Revolution has torn us away from our harmony with nature and by the ways we can return back to mother earth. Man continues to destroy nature in an attempt to strengthen himself. Wordsworth and Hopkins talk about mans primal instinct to destroy what is around him. ... This is made evident when Wordsworth says "getting and spending we lay waste our powers.