Maya Angelou's "Africa" recounts Africa being ravaged and pillaged by Europeans who took children of Africa and made them into slaves. Rhythm, diction, and personification intensify the imagery and tone of Angelou’s poem. The countries of Africa are personified to create striking images, and the rhythmical patterns aid to the changing tone, ranging from very emotional to unpleasing and contemplative.
In the first stanza, Maya Angelou personifies Africa to create powerful imagery and give readers strong emotional feelings to the continent. In her personification of Africa, it becomes real and gains a very touching emotional appeal, and the reader’s compassion is provoked. At the same time, this whole stanza is a metaphor for Africa. It is personified
In the first stanza, Maya Angelou personifies Africa to create powerful imagery and give readers strong emotional feelings to the continent. In her personification of Africa, it becomes real and gains a very touching emotional appeal, and the reader’s compassion is provoked. At the same time, this whole stanza is a metaphor for Africa. It is personified