The document provides instructions for a poetry assignment asking students to write an 8 line poem incorporating similes, metaphors, personification, and imagery to reinforce a chosen theme of love, hate, death, nature, individuality, or justice. Students are to brainstorm how they feel about the theme and convey their opinion in the poem. They will be graded on their inclusion of figurative language devices and use of imagery to stimulate the senses and convey the theme.