Closer to Nature
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In this day and age, people in general are feeling that they are not closer enough to nature, and that something is lacking in their lives. Wordsworth and Yeats, in their poems The World Is Too Much With Us and The Lake Isle of Innisfree, both express a desire to be closer to nature and find a sense of peace and purposefulness that seems lacking in the modern world. Although they both express the same desire, they both use different tones, settings and writing styles to communicate and express their desire.
The two poems do have a lot in common in terms of the message they're trying to get across. Both Woodsworth and Yeats have a strong desire to be closer to nature, and both seek a much simpler life, without the complications of the modern world and its systems and trivial obligations. In both poems, the narrators reflect on their environment and their and in nature, and at times even personify nature which is used to suggest a real bond between nature and people. For example, "The sea that bears her bosom to the moon"(Wordsworth) personifies the sea, and bonds the ocean with the positive characteristics of humanity, such as innocence, which is implied by the nakedness of the sea. On the same note, both authors use imagery to describe nature, as can be found in the example previously mentioned: The picture of the moon shining over the sea is etched in the readers mind as this line is read, and it paints a very beautiful detailed picture. Yeats does the same in his poem: "There a midnight's all a glimmer", which paints the picture of a beautiful starry evening. But the similarities end there...