“the World Is Too Much with Us” and "the Lake Isle of Innisfree” Poetry Analysis

“The World is Too Much With Us” and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" are poems that relate to man’s relationship with nature. The first poem, a 14 line sonnet, “the world is too much with us” is written by William Wordsworth in 1802 and published in 1807 and it is also one of his most popular poems of the five-hundred sonnets he has written (poetry foundation). As a young boy Wordsworth found beauty in nature and ironically he grows up to write a poem about man’s failure to enjoy and appreciate nature (Krober, Karl). In addition, when Wordsworth was a young boy he coped with the loss of his parents through finding peace from nature; falling in love with everything it has to offer. Furthermore, Wordsworth refers to man’s drive of “getting and spending” as the source of it his disconnection from nature. The Second poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is written by W.B Yeats who was considered to be the greatest poet of Ireland's twentieth century (Poetry foundation.org, the editors). The poem was Yeats’s most popular and notably, he wrote it before he was twenty years old. Although it was written in 1888 and published in 1890 and later it was a part of The Rose, a collection of twenty-two poems that W.B. Yeats published in 1893 (“Deep Heart's Core Sound (PoemTalk #66). Throughout the three short quatrains the poem explores the speaker's longing for the peace and tranquility of his boyhood .(Poetry for Students, edited by Anne Marie). The poem is about a speaker who longs for a life spent in nature to bring about peace in troubled soul (Marie, Anne). Yeats offers many symbols throughout the poem that relates to the speaker's ability and willingness to escape from his real world to one that is peaceful (Marie, Anne). Both of these poems illustrate man’s relationship with nature and one's ability to connect and disconnect from both oneself, nature, and some would argue, one’s reality. The poems also