Disconnection with nature in "The World Is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth

Through the use of illustration and metaphors in the poem “The World Is Too Much With Us” by William Wordsworth, he tries to portray how humanity has pretty much lost complete touch with nature ever since wealth and material things became hugely important things to us. He starts by going on saying how we waste our potential and time on materials and receiving, “getting and spending, we waste our powers” (Wordsworth 2). He then goes on to highlight humanity’s disconnection by saying “We are out of tune” (Wordsworth 8) which compares the lack of “harmony” people are having with nature to a…