U.S. the World Is, Indeed,

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The world is, indeed, too much with all of us in the 21st century and there are several parts of the poem that are worth analyzing from this perspective. First of all, the poem emphasizes, in the verse "Little we see in Nature that is ours" a separation between the individuals and the nature they are no longer part of. The intense urbanization process, especially in the developed countries, has led to a move from the connection with nature, to isolation amidst urban environments, away from nature and without the possibility of getting back to it.

This isolation from nature also translates in its neglect. Since little is ours in Nature, there is little interest to protect nature and this often translates in the environmental disasters that dominate the 21st century. Individuals have lost interest and respect for nature, so they are no longer interested in treating nature with the attention it needs and in protecting it when necessary.

Beyond this, but strictly related to it, is the way individuals treat the resources that nature has. In the line "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers," we understand that individuals are too focused on the exploitation of natural resources to realize that, in this manner, they actually have a negative impact on their own power: as they work their way towards destroying the environment, humans will lose their own power, since the true element they can relate to is nature. From nature all individuals are born and to nature they need to pay their due respect.

The respective verse is more profound than the interpretation that was given here: individuals have been transformed, in the 21st century, into people who are only interested in their own individual problems, in acquiring wealth, in "getting and spending," in using the income obtained in order to ensure a position in society. Individuals have become estranged from their true nature and their true self, which is contradictory to the getting and spending.

The tone is pessimistic and somber, with the poet implying that this is not a trend that can be reversed at any time in the future. This is true for the 21st century: mankind has undertaken a road that does not promise its potential return to nature or to the true self of the individual, one in tone and line with the environment it is part of.