Maya Angelou’s Captivating Use of Imagery
In the following craft analysis of poet, Maya Angelou, we will be able to learn more on how he incorporates imagery throughout her work. The poems that I have chosen to analyze are “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” and “Alone.” Her poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” is about going through life without fear, and doing what you want to do even if it might scare you. The poem “Alone” is about how no one can go through life by themselves. She paints a picture of chaos and sadness when a person is alone. Maya tries to warn people that you cannot survive without a companion by your side. With these two poems, we can see that Maya Angelou has a strong sense of imagery within a lot of her work. Angelou’s strong imagery comes from her usage of details, word choice, senses and dictation.
Maya Angelou uses many different techniques to add detail to her work. You …show more content…
While reading these two poems, if you look closely, you’ll be able to find ways that Maya used dictation within her work. In the poem, “Alone” she uses more of a connotation to drive the theme home. An example of this is in the fifth stanza of the poem. The whole stanza works together to paint a scene. This scene is a typical cloudy sky that is brings us a sense of dread. However, the meaning that Maya Angelou uses in this stanza is slightly different. She is describing how being alone is the same as always living in a cloudy state where the person only knows disparity. She also uses this technique in the poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.” For example, line 30 she wrote, “Kissy little girls.” At first glance a person would only understand that she was talking about other little girls. When in fact, Maya, is hinting at a much different and deeper meaning to those words. In this poem those words represent the fear and jealousy many young African American children faced when going to a predominantly white
In the following craft analysis of poet, Maya Angelou, we will be able to learn more on how he incorporates imagery throughout her work. The poems that I have chosen to analyze are “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me” and “Alone.” Her poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” is about going through life without fear, and doing what you want to do even if it might scare you. The poem “Alone” is about how no one can go through life by themselves. She paints a picture of chaos and sadness when a person is alone. Maya tries to warn people that you cannot survive without a companion by your side. With these two poems, we can see that Maya Angelou has a strong sense of imagery within a lot of her work. Angelou’s strong imagery comes from her usage of details, word choice, senses and dictation.
Maya Angelou uses many different techniques to add detail to her work. You …show more content…
While reading these two poems, if you look closely, you’ll be able to find ways that Maya used dictation within her work. In the poem, “Alone” she uses more of a connotation to drive the theme home. An example of this is in the fifth stanza of the poem. The whole stanza works together to paint a scene. This scene is a typical cloudy sky that is brings us a sense of dread. However, the meaning that Maya Angelou uses in this stanza is slightly different. She is describing how being alone is the same as always living in a cloudy state where the person only knows disparity. She also uses this technique in the poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me.” For example, line 30 she wrote, “Kissy little girls.” At first glance a person would only understand that she was talking about other little girls. When in fact, Maya, is hinting at a much different and deeper meaning to those words. In this poem those words represent the fear and jealousy many young African American children faced when going to a predominantly white