The problems both poems directly address are focussed on the exploitation of nature in pursuit of wealth and material gain; what differentiates the poems is their reliance and response to the natural world, which had been moulded around the needs of mankind in the 1800s. As a result, mankind abused the natural world and preferring to pollute it as a means of gaining wealth. Unsurprisingly, both were greatly influenced by their religious fervour; Wordsworth shows evident sympathy for Pagan mythology, while Hopkins was committed to a
The problems both poems directly address are focussed on the exploitation of nature in pursuit of wealth and material gain; what differentiates the poems is their reliance and response to the natural world, which had been moulded around the needs of mankind in the 1800s. As a result, mankind abused the natural world and preferring to pollute it as a means of gaining wealth. Unsurprisingly, both were greatly influenced by their religious fervour; Wordsworth shows evident sympathy for Pagan mythology, while Hopkins was committed to a