Technology Poems
Post date: May 31, 2012 5:07:15 PM
from our email thread
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
Mourning the loss of simpler times; disappointed pastoral
Cities by hd
About the claustrophobia and loss of beauty in modern cities
The End of Science Fiction by Lisel Mueller
About the world taken over by computers and robots for reals, so we need to go back to pastoral poems
The Convergence of the Twain by Thomas Hardy
About the sinking of the Titanic, the vain attempts of man, industry overcome by nature, etc.
Song for the Luddites by Lord Byron
Mocking the Luddite movement of the 19th Century
The World is Too Much with Us by William Wordsworth
Bemoaning our disconnection with nature