In William Wordsworth's poem, "The World is Too Much with Us," he is making a declaration about the struggle between nature and humanity. Wordsworth is well known for his description and love for nature and in, "The World is Too Much With Us," he entails us with his powerful feelings, obsession and longing for a much simpler time were humanity was not able to meddle so harshly with nature.

I believe that humanity and nature can and should live in harmony. In the poem Wordsworth states, "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers," describes mankind destroying nature for progress unaware of their effect on the environment. Wordsworth believes humanity has the potential to harmonize with nature and even states are capability to do so as "powers." The money-oriented advance of mankind is described in the lines, "We have given out hearts away, a sordid boom." Humans as...