What if your English teacher says its time to cast away the rules to follow your heart to look into your soul this is a stanza of a poem...

This is an interesting question. I think that the writer
is likely addressing readers who are sitting on the fence, hesitant about going after
their dreams. Or, perhaps, the person who feels strongly about an issue but is afraid to
act on his or her feelings because those feelings go against the norm. The poem speaks
to those individuals who have a dream (which is all of us, really) who might be afraid
to go after that dream because something is holding them
back.

Look at it line by
line.

The first line tells us to cast away rules. We live
by so many rules in our society - from the rules that are parents make (many of which
should NOT be broken because they are for our own safety) to the rules that society and
peer pressure force upon us such as we must get married, have children, work a steady
job in a traditional field, or even accept things just because we are told to accept
them. Think abut it this way - if people like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks had
not broken society's rules, where would the Civil Rights movement
be?

The second line tells us to follow our hearts.
Sometimes, our heart knows right from wrong better than society does. Many people
opposed slavery well before the emancipation proclamation was written. Society said it
was acceptable, but they knew in their hearts that enslaving another human being was
wrong. Thise who spoke out even though they knew they might be ostracized for it
followed their hearts. Many a performer, athlete, or even entrepreneur was once told
that he or she was going after something that would never amount to anything, but those
who reach the top got there because they followed their
hearts.

The last line ties to the second nicely. When we
look into our soul, we become even more aware of what is right in general and what os
right for us as individuals. Only we know what is true deep inside of
ourselves.