1. William Wordsworth's View of How "The world is too much with
... world is too much with us" Romanticism officially began in 1798 in response to The Age of Reason and the Industrial Revolution. To be considered a Romantic work, the work must contain aspects which are termed "Romantic." A few typical "Romantic" aspects are: love of the past; sympathy to the child's mind; faith in the inner goodness of man; aspects of nature having religious, mystic, and or ... symbolic significance; and reconciliation of contrasting ideas to make a point. Wordsworth uses some of these ideas in a poem called "The world is too much with us." The Industrial Revolution ... ...
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