On the Road to Destruction As years and decades come and go the lifestyle of the people who inherit the earth evolve ever more rapidly. The majority declares it 's views for changes in styles, beliefs, and "norms" of what humanity, or at least what "civilized" people, should value. Because of the actions of living up to the newest fads, pollution, power, and greed will continue to be contagious cancers that will bring much harm to nature to the possibility that the earth will be uninhabitable for future generations. Unless a massive transformation takes place in the modern man 's state-of-mind, the earth we have so freely inherited will be destroyed. As technology evolves the human race is becoming more and more lazy. Attributes like honor and pride are being sought out less and less and taking their place is goals for comfort and power. Some people have realized these facts and have pushed for a more "green" way of living but "some people" are not enough. The words written in William Wordsworth 's " Lines Written In Early Spring," Have a bitter sweet emotion tied to them. In correspondence with the destructive creature man has become Wordsworth gives great insight, through poetry, to the simple beauty that can only be found in nature. Wordsworth not only speaks of the beauty of nature, but also of the bitterness of mankind. According to Wordsworth, Humanity has changed from its primitive state of natural beauty to an abomination of egotistical living. Wordsworth wrote this poem while he went for a walk in a spot near the village of Alford, he describes the moment and the place as a natural scene in motion, branches looking for the sun trying to escape from the water where its tree had fallen and had remained as a natural bridge and water falling down a sloping rock. Through this image we can imagine the sounds and the moment described in the poem (Wordsworth).The first
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