This poem repeats the line "Knowledge comes, but w
This poem repeats the line "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers". It describes war as a time "When the ranks are roll'd in vapor, and the winds are laid with sound". The speaker proclaims "Woman is the lesser man" and says "Nature made them blinder motions bounded in a shallower brain". This poem describes a woman "whom to look at was to love". Twice, the speaker exclaims that he "dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, / Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be", before giving a Utopian vision of the future in which all are united by the "universal law" of the "Parliament of man". The speaker says "In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" before describing his romance with a woman who jilted him at her father's request, his cousin Amy. FTP, name this dramatic monologue by Alfred Lord Tennyson, named for the Lincolnshire estate where the speaker spent his youth.
This poem repeats the line "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers".
"Locksley Hall"