ves. Hopkins shows this same type of idea but with a higher connection, the power of God. He uses God as a way of showing us the wrong we are doing. He shows Man's disobedience of God as a way to show that we have forgotten nature. Wordsworth thinks our own ambitions have led us to this point and we can't say that Hopkins completely disagrees with that. Hopkins shows how nature accumulates our pollution. They both must have realized the influence these technologies were having on their societies. They indicate how the Industrial Revolution has torn us away from our harmony with nature. This point is made evident not only through the two poems under question but through the way these two poets lived. Wordsworth took his experience in the French revolution and experiences with nature to great heart. This is where the "getting and spending" part of his poem really comes in to strike a chord with his fellow humans. Wordsworth wants us to remember that technology is not, and should not be the most important thing in our lives. While it was the "in" thing to move to the city and forget your rural surroundings, it was rarely the right thing to do. Hopkins had this problem being a Jesuit in Liverpool, one of the most polluted cities. He had to take his inner harmony in stride with his religious belief. He used this religious belief to allow himself to feel cleansed of any sort of hate towards technology. He used his earlier poetry to actually show his discontent with society. While he perhaps was not as influenced by social advancements as Wordsworth, they did play some part in his earlier years. Wordsworth had the opening and money to become someone meaningful in a high paced society yet chose to be the revolutionary. Hopkins took the option of grueling it out to become a Jesuit. These different paths led the two men to different conclusions. Both poets wondered if it would be possible to return to nature. They t...
