Compare Edgar Allan Poe And Wordsworth

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Edgar Allan Poe and William Wordsworth are two poets that value nature and poetry over materialism, wealth and science. In the two poems “To Science” and “The World is Too Much With Us” the poets interpret the beauty of nature as being disturbed by the world’s desire for materialism and further innovations of science. Both poems utilize Greek mythology to express how nature is being taken for granted and forgotten about. In one aspect, Wordsworth speaks of Greek gods rising above and showing how glorious the true beauty of nature can be. In another aspect, Poe describes Greek gods and a goddess as being exiled and labels science as a “vulture”. Both poets express that their realities have been disturbed by the view of society and the ever-changing world around them. Both poems describe two speakers mourning a world of simplicity and express a love for fantasy and art that has been taken by science and society’s desire for consumerism. …show more content…

Wordsworth’s complaint is that nature is not valued by the world. Man has alienated himself from nature as described in lines 5-8 as the speaker accuses the world of being unaffected by the “Sea” and being out of touch with nature as the poem states, “For this, for everything, we are out of tune; / It moves us not” (Wordsworth 8-9). The world goes on with everyday life, wanting more, and not noticing the beauty that already surrounds them. On the other hand, Poe describes science as preying on the “poet’s heart” and beating poetry out like a “Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?” (3-4). The evolving nature of science has overcome the nature of art and fantasy. The speaker desires to find his own truth in the world and portrays a sense of isolation as he does not praise the acts of science like the rest of

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