Hello Everyone,
Michaela and I are also presenting on Monday on Industrialization and William Wordsworth's poem "The World is Too Much With Us." We will give a brief summary of what Industrialization is and then we will be relating the Industrial Revolution to both the poem we are discussing in tutorial and the poems for Wednesday's lecture. Below is a link we have found that summarizes and analyzes the poem "The World is Too Much With Us" which we will go over in tutorial and we will also supply this kind of summary for the other poems that we feel fit with the theme of Industrialization.
http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/Guides3/WorldIsTooMuch.html
“The World is Too Much With Us” is a poem describing the negative aspects of industrialization. The poem praises nature and points out how the rise in materialism, productivity and commercial activity reduced one’s admiration of nature. For example in the poem it says that: “Getting and Spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” (Black et al. 2008:142). We will discuss the contents of this poem and why this quote and others specifically relate to industrialization in our presentation tomorrow.
This website contains information regarding child labour during industrialization in England, and how children were exploited in large factories for cheap labour. This relates to "The World is Too Much With Us" because Wordsworth discusses the negative impacts of industrialization and how it caused damange to humans (especially people that were exploited in factories).
We look forward to discussing this information in depth with you on Monday.
Works Cited
Eds. Black, Jose, Leonard Collony, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome xxxxJ, McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, Claire Waters. The Broadview Anthology xxxxof British Literature, Concise Edition, Volume B. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, xxxx2008.
Randi & Michaela
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