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The poem "The World Is Too Much With Us" is written by William Wordsworth, the leading literary figure of the Romantic Era in Britain. The poem laments the negative implications of the Industrial Revolution in Britain. Wordsworth complains about the human beings transition from a unique and social creature to a mechanical and materialistic one. He grieves that human beings now no longer enjoys the natural entities which give us a permanent joy and serenity. People become gross and machine like in our thought process. For saving himself from such "disease", Wordsworth takes refuge in nature and imagination and find utmost joy. According to the poet, we human beings, are fed up with our natural surroundings. We forget to live fruitfully and without purpose. We are wasting our energies and potential on irrelevant things. We don't observe the nature and its beauty. Like a mechanical object, we renounced our heart, our emotional side and the very thing which make u