Young Soul
Young Soul - meaning Summary
Feeling Before Reading
This short poem urges embodied attention: feel before or alongside reading and thinking. It moves between self-awareness and relational awareness—parents, sisters, urban boys, country men—demanding humility ("fall...on your knees") and close looking. The speaker calls for both intellectual effort and emotional strength, urging readers to cultivate "muscle in your head" while using the "muscle in your heart." The overall message is engaged empathy and active, lived understanding.
Read Complete AnalysesFirst, feel, then feel, then read, or read, then feel, then fall, or stand, where you already are. Think of your self, and the other selves . . . think of your parents, your mothers and sisters, your bentslick father, then feel, or fall, on your knees if nothing else will move you, then read and look deeply into all matters come close to you city boys— country men Make some muscle in your head, but use the muscle in your heart
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