Poem’s Impact Today: Analysis
Europe’s second Renaissance started but 100 years after the end of the prior- but this time it kindled over 1,200 miles away in the smoky streets of England. The industrial revolution was in full throttle; women as well as young children, scurried to their factories every day as the eight o’clock bells rang the streets. Meanwhile, crowds gathered at the main square awaiting the tardy locomotive. Humanity was entangled in a hurtling world of technology and money. Innovations were aplenty, yet happiness was minimal. Monopolies formed in almost all industries, and children suffered incurable wounds on top of endlessly throbbing invisible scars. As retaliation, as well as a means of salvation, many philosophers and poets saw this as the perfect time to rebuild social humanity. They focused on the powers hidden in nature which for the past years had been dissected and destroyed again and again for the benefit of humans only. Many poets painted pictures of wisdom flowing freely from mother earth’s arms- a small glimmer of what humanity had turned their …show more content…
The grounds that this group formulated stands high today, a yet waving virtue of human evolution and understanding, which has not been eroded, but like a ball of snow these ideas saw a way of gathering further flakes, those once thought radical soon deteriorating into the commonplace. One poem from this time that greatly embodies this goal of endless endurance is found in another noteworthy poet of the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, William Wordsworth. Titled, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" this poem and its themes can be found still in songs from the second half of the 21st century. These songs include, "Back to Earth" by Peter Gabriel, "Holocene" by Bon Iver and “Mr. Blue Sky” by
Europe’s second Renaissance started but 100 years after the end of the prior- but this time it kindled over 1,200 miles away in the smoky streets of England. The industrial revolution was in full throttle; women as well as young children, scurried to their factories every day as the eight o’clock bells rang the streets. Meanwhile, crowds gathered at the main square awaiting the tardy locomotive. Humanity was entangled in a hurtling world of technology and money. Innovations were aplenty, yet happiness was minimal. Monopolies formed in almost all industries, and children suffered incurable wounds on top of endlessly throbbing invisible scars. As retaliation, as well as a means of salvation, many philosophers and poets saw this as the perfect time to rebuild social humanity. They focused on the powers hidden in nature which for the past years had been dissected and destroyed again and again for the benefit of humans only. Many poets painted pictures of wisdom flowing freely from mother earth’s arms- a small glimmer of what humanity had turned their …show more content…
The grounds that this group formulated stands high today, a yet waving virtue of human evolution and understanding, which has not been eroded, but like a ball of snow these ideas saw a way of gathering further flakes, those once thought radical soon deteriorating into the commonplace. One poem from this time that greatly embodies this goal of endless endurance is found in another noteworthy poet of the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, William Wordsworth. Titled, "I wandered lonely as a cloud" this poem and its themes can be found still in songs from the second half of the 21st century. These songs include, "Back to Earth" by Peter Gabriel, "Holocene" by Bon Iver and “Mr. Blue Sky” by