Reading This Week

And this my friends is how to raise boys, not by sentiment, not by computer games that stir up all the worst in their natures, not by Victorian moralism. I am no expert. I don’t mean to speak with authority but I want to see homeschooled boys who can quote Shakespeare and hit home runs, boys who can plow the field while reciting Frost, boys who can face terrorists and cross the bar. We ask a lot of our young men these days. We ask them to be men and demand that they behave like women. This may sound like some trite twist on words but it is almost entirely the state in which our young men find themselves.
Poetry is a way to build meaning and chivalry into their souls while letting them maintain their masculinity. Poetry is not about daisy chains but rather about the depths and the heights of meaning.