Romanticism in the 21st Century: Re-Interpreting Wordsworth’s The World is Too Much with Us
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Romanticism is a period that displayed an intense reaction to the industrial revolution and enlightenment that arose during the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. In this period, people began to work in factories located in rural/urban areas and in its wake nature was destroyed to build the factories. The romantic period frowned at this and in reaction writers had a lot to say on the prevailing situation. William Wordsworth was a key figure in the Romantic school of thought. He has written a lot of poems exploring this theme; appreciation of nature. The theoretical framework employed for the study is ecocriticism which is an interdisciplinary link between literature and the natural environment; this will be used for the analysis of the poem. The method used for collecting data is library based. This study examines the poem The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth re-interpreting it in the 21st century as a panacea to the lack of appreciation and neglect of nature.
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