This piece of art makes me feel a cold, dark feeling. The fact that he made it so graphic is, to me, such a gift to the world. Horrible things like this happen so much in the world today and usually anyone not involved are very oblivious to what goes on around them. This picture is such a good description of what happens when people that don’t know what they are doing are put in charge or takes everything in their own hands. William Wordsworth's poem "The world is too much with us" was written in the 1800's around the time that this painting was made. I think the poem gives a good prediction of what later actually happened and then was painted about. Two of the lines read "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours." That, to me, is exactly what the picture depicts literally, but figuratively there is so much more behind both the poem and the picture. The world will swallow us up if one person tries to everything themselves. The world is like a big ocean, ready to tear us apart like the raft.