Advice Poem

Lyric (Advice) Poem

The key to the advice poem is to choose a speaker to give advice to someone in the form of a poem.
Read “Mother to Son”(193) and “Speech to the Young”(195)

Directions

Choose a speaker.

Choose an audience.

Decide on the theme (message or advice).

The length should be 10-30 lines, 3+ stanzas

Look to include frequent examples of sound devices and figurative language 

The final copy must be typed or written neatly in black or blue ink.