This poem rather problematically calls woman "a lesser man" because "woman's pleasure, woman's pain" are "blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain." Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin gets its title from this poem. This poem mentions how "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." The speaker of this poem imagines "the nations' air
This poem rather problematically calls woman "a lesser man" because "woman's pleasure, woman's pain" are "blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain." Colum McCann's novel Let the Great World Spin gets its title from this poem. This poem mentions how "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." The speaker of this poem imagines "the nations' airy navies (*) grappling in the central blue" as part of his vision of the future, which fails to come true in this poem's sequel set "Sixty Years After." The speaker of this poem angrily recalls how his cousin Amy spurned his love. This poem's speaker is a soldier passing by the title building, which brings up memories of his youth. For 10 points, name this dramatic monologue by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
This poem rather problematically calls woman "a lesser man" because "woman's pleasure, woman's pain" are "blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain."
"Locksley Hall"