The Good Man
The Good Man - meaning Summary
Moral Steadiness Amid Disorder
Brooks addresses an ideal "good man" who stands as moral witness amid social fragmentation and hypocrisy. The figure observes false comforts, failures of love, and communal decay, then urges repair, constraint of destructive forces, and renewed commitment. The poem balances critique and appeal: it names widespread moral disorder and calls for active reproof, restoration, and faithful action—love, pledges, and solidarity—as remedies for a torn community.
Read Complete AnalysesThe good man. He is still enhancer, renouncer. In the time of detachment, in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil, in the time of oral grave grave legalities of hate - all real walks our prime registered reproach and seal. Our successful moral. The good man. Watches our bogus roses, our rank wreath, our love's unreliable cement, the gray jubilees of our demondom. Coherent Counsel! Good man. Require of us our terribly excluded blue. Constrain, repair a ripped, revolted land. Put hand in hand land over. Reprove the abler droughts and manias of the day and a felicity entreat. Love. Complete your pledges, reinforce your aides, renew stance, testament.
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