Literary Analysis Of Taha Muhammad Ali's Life

These poems are all written by great authors and people. They each have their own take on poetry and how they see life. There viewpoints are shown in their writing. These authors have all felt great pains and happiness. Rudyard Kipling, Maya Angelou had to deal with the oppression of being a colored person during a time where the nation was divided between the African Americans and the white man. Taha Muhammad Ali lived through the Arab- Israeli war, and had to flee his home when he was a teen. Through great suffering comes great inspiration and art. These poems all have a common meaning to them it is that if you can survive the worst that people throw at you then you will be and power through and overcome everything. This is the key to living …show more content…
The form of the page is a basic one of that. It is a very straight forward set up for the poem. Although I do like how all the text is aligned in the middle of the page creating a column or maybe a staff the son uses in his daily life. The first three lines of each stanza is started with the word if. Setting up the idea that if the son does the three things in each stanza that he will become a true man or at least a man in his father’s eyes. “which is more- you’ll be a Man, my son!” The meter of this poem is four octets or even two sonnets put together. There is eight lines in each stanza of this poem. A sonnet is two eight lines stanza put together that have a sing song rhythm to them in which this poem does. The rhyme scheme of this poem is one that starts with the first four lines of the poem all rhyme then it changes to every first and third line rhyme and every second and fourth line rhyme. This is the pattern for the rest of the poem. The types of literary elements that this poem uses are personification. Kipling makes triumph and disaster seem like people, who his son in this poem is supposed to treat evenly as people. “If you meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the …show more content…
At the end of the first stanza he gains wisdom, by trusting himself and making smart decisions in difficult times. The next trait that he gets is tools to build the good of life with. The final trait he gets is strength the strength to win all the money he could ever need and to lose it all and still stay humble and go on with life as if it has never happened in the first place. It’s quite a hard thing to win all of lives riches and lose them all in the same sentence, but still be ok in the end and come away with dignity “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou. This poem is a powerful poem about rising from the ashes after someone beats you down. For standing up for yourself when someone tries to belittle you or make you not feel important. She suffered so much, but her suffering gave the world beautiful poetry that people can relate to. The poem structure is free verse poem. In the fact that the rhyme scheme is all over the place. The meter of this poem is quintet strung together in a series of ten stanzas. The literary language that is being used in this poem is in the first stanza fourth line is personification. The dust cannot rise or stand up it is not human and it’s not an animated object. Also, hopes cannot jump or spring