Crazy
Word of the Week
When we read George Herbert's poem, "The Windows," which begins with the lines, “Lord, how can man preach thy eternal word? / He is a brittle, crazy glass,” I always ask my students to tell me what the adjective CRAZY means here. They give me the figurative sense: man is not right in the head. But I press them. I say, “We are reading poetry. I want to k…
