Passage 1: The tone of this poem is primarily anger combined with a sense of sarcasm. Woodsworth continually chastised human beings for continually putting their energy and interests into material things. He sarcastically exclaimed that he would rather be a pagan nursed in creed watching Proteus emerge from the sea and his Triton blowing on his conch than be in a world of people he was ashamed of. Woodsworth seemed to want a new perspective on nature as he watched all the ungrateful people of the world be held in anger for their fixation on materialism. Woodsworth used the first person plural in the first eight lines of the poem and then switched to the first person singular. He used “we, us and our” to make it known that humans, even himself, need to pay more attention to what the world has for us. The transition from “we” to “I” helped parallel the effect of the poem from becoming sermon-like as it probably deserved some blame. Most of the verses are written in iambic pentameter. Each pair consisted of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable which appeared in lines 5 and 6. Wordsworth's sonnet is of the Petrarchan variety and there are also different types of beats which give the poem a sense of variation. There were also metaphors, similes and alliteration involved in the poem. Alliteration was used when he made the sea sound as if he were a human being ("bares his breast"). He then compared a musical instrument to humanity because he felt humanity was starting to be less in unison with nature, which ties into the metaphor. The seventh line of the poem introduced a simile as it used “like” to make the comparison of the winds gathered like sleeping flowers. The final theme of this poem is… the medium of paper… dying. Woodsworth demonstrated a valid point by stating that people “see little in Nature” while “we waste our strength.” His only request was to see more people less alienated from what Mother Nature has to offer. Step 3: Woodsworth embodies the image of an environmentalist as he conveys a sympathy for nature rather than humanity's creations. His poetry grieves the loss of nature in society. Modern society is so busy “getting and spending” money in business and enterprise that it ignores all the glory and pristine nature. This topic remains an important theme in today's world as people are stuck with world affairs related to money that disables the ability to understand what really matters. Humanity's fixation with material substances has been a problem in the past and will continue to be a problem for generations to come.