Advice to My Son (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Peter Meinke
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Parents and children, Fathers
The Poem
Peter Meinke’s “Advice to My Son” is, as the title suggests, a poem on how to live one’s life, from the perspective of one who is older and more experienced. In a fashion both witty and wise, the parent advises the son, and by extension the reader, on the dangers and delights life holds in store. In only twenty-three lines, Meinke conveys a powerful sense of the multiple and often opposing aspects of life: the practical and the idealistic, the physical and the spiritual, the temporal and the long-term, the sensual and the intellectual, the secular and the...
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