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The poem is like a guide to how the be a man. It should probably start out with step one don’t write poetry. Step two if you failed to acknowledge step one, you have twenty four hours to kill a bear with you bare hands or your man card will be revoked. Do note that your man card is not an actual card. It is a chromosome and if you are to lose your "man card", badass beard dawning Viking lumberjacks will kick your door down in the middle of the day and rip that Y chromosome right out of your face hole because sneaking around at night is for pansies. All jokes aside, this is in fact a poem about how to be a man. And surprisingly it rhymes too. Do you know how rare it is to see a poem that actually rhymes in high school? Teachers are too into all that deeper meaning crap they forget what makes poetry bearable the rhyming. Right, back to the poem itself. The first stanza is all about do not do this do this instead. It's like one of those commercials. Don’t settle for whatever get Direct TV. The first stanza is also more self reflection/improvement. The second and third stanza is about being persistent and not giving up. The last stanza is about being a down to earth person. I personally like the last one because it's saying be the best you can be but also don't be a dick about it and that is like advice for life because you could be the most powerful person in the world and own everything but what would be the point of having everything if everyone hates you and there's no one to share the world with? The poem could help people to be nicer to each other and all that and is still applicable today if someone had the time to sit down and connect all of what the author is saying with things that modern people could relate to because not many people would sit down and do it themselves. What? Think? I'm not paid to think. I could just get it from Google because let's be honest no one uses Bing. I just don't feel like most men would actually think "I need to be a man, better read this poem". When you think manly you do not think poems. Unless what you consider manly is like a hipster or something. Which is cool too if you're into that kind of stuff. If this were directed towards men, it would be less complicated and more to the point. This feels like it is written for someone else to read and then tell the person it is meant for about it. Just cut the middle man and get straight to the point because everyone knows that guys can't take a hint to save their lives. If this poem were a how to guide or a list like most normal guides are, I would think that it would get more views than it does in poem form. But that's just my two cents.