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"The World Is Too Much With Us"

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This sonnet by William Wordsworth, published in 1807, laments the weakening connection between humans and nature.

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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000

Clifton’s poems owe a great deal to oral tradition. Her work is wonderfully musical and benefits greatly from being read aloud: “It is hard to remain human on a day/ when birds perch weeping/ in the trees and the squirrel eyes/ do not look away but the dog ones do/ in pity.

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Connection with Nature