paragraph on what man has made of the earth
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THREE HUNDRED years ago, man lived much closer to nature. For the most part, he was not threatened by man-made changes to the global environment in the way he is today. The industrial revolution had not begun. There were no power stations, factories, automobiles, or other sources of widespread pollution. The thought of man’s ruining the whole earth may have been hard for him to imagine.
"What Man Has Made On Earth"
It seems fitting, on the first day of Spring to write about the poem “Written in Early Spring,” don’t you think? When reading this poem, I did not realize its meaning until the last two lines: “Have I not reason to lament What Man has made of Man?” I had to go back and read it over to catch the undertones which I had missed. On second reading, I found the same line had been in the second stanza, but in following the rhyme scheme for rhythm rather than meaning, I missed it. It is amazing to me that a poet who lived before the industrial revolution would have had such an opinion on human kind. There was the expansion westward, conquering the wilderness, but cities were still relatively small, the farmer was valued and climate change was a century off. Yet Wordsworth could see that Man was changing, for the worse. “What Man has made of Man” implies that there was an expectation for Man, his behavior and his responsibility. Man, with so much power for good and for destruction has the responsibility to respect his fellow man and the environment in which he lives. But Wordsworth saw even then, that greed, selfishness and arrogance was changing his ideal of human kind into something else. Wordsworth appreciated the beauty of the land, the flowers, the birds and trees. He saw that they had value, and he saw that there were an every decreasing few who shared this view. If this was in the thoughts of a poet a hundred years ago, I wonder how he would think of us today.
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