I don’t think you have to adjust it to being gender neutral. He is describing manhood full stop. It’s not to say that there aren’t universal messages. But this is not a poem for women and girls. It’s beyond their domain. It makes men stand to attention. It makes women wish they knew someone like that. I think your little disclaimer at the end inadvertently showed you didn’t understand the poem. But yes, we should carry it in our wallet and read it at least once a week
As a teenager, my mother gave me a copy of this on a copper plate.
Thanks for the reminder.
I don’t think you have to adjust it to being gender neutral. He is describing manhood full stop. It’s not to say that there aren’t universal messages. But this is not a poem for women and girls. It’s beyond their domain. It makes men stand to attention. It makes women wish they knew someone like that. I think your little disclaimer at the end inadvertently showed you didn’t understand the poem. But yes, we should carry it in our wallet and read it at least once a week
Happy to agree to disagree Tom. Cheers
I so hate that cop out response. Better to be silent