Is “getting and spending” really worth living for? f

In “The World Is Too Much With Us,” by William Wordsworth, the speaker in the poem describes humankind’s relationship with the world in terms of loss. That relationship once developed, but now, due to the impacts of industrialization on everyday life, humankind has lost the ability to appreciate nature. Notably, the poem does not suggest a way to reclaim what is lost. Rather, it's arguing that humankind’s once-forgotten relationship with nature can never go back to how it once was. Its tone is desperate. For example, the poem shows the loss in the economic sense. It's blaming urban life for…