Wordsworth and Alexie

William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us" criticizes the identity and culture of humans, as we identify differently from nature and have such a materialistic culture, which we shouldn't have at all. "Little we see in nature... is ours" because we don't think of ourselves as a part of it, so henceforth, we can't own any of it. To also get his point across, Wordsworth mentions that "we are out of tune" with the sea and the winds as we just see these as motions that "move us not". The poet personifies the sea and the winds in order to show that they are at the same level that humans are; no being is better than or above another. The poet also goes on to say that he'd "rather be / a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn" so that he can at least be more in tune with nature. All in all, Wordsworth is commenting that humans have basically become to full of ourselves in our materialistic culture, and we need to to identify as one with nature in order for the the world to be with us.
Sherman Alexie's "The Powwow at the End of the World" goes on a different track from Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us". Where "The World" criticizes how humans as a unit are too materialized to be one with the world, "Powwow" comments on the speaker's identification with his Indian people and how his culture is culture is separate from the rest of the world's. Alexie repeats "I am told by many of you that I must forgive and so I shall" in almost every sentence, so at first it initially seems like the poet is about to forgive about any wrongdoings against Indians. However, after each phrase, the speaker goes on to say a statement along the lines of "when pigs fly", like when he mentions that he will forgive "after an Indian woman puts her shoulder to the Grand Coulee Dam / and topples it". So, Alexie's point is that forgiveness won't happen with his culture.