Maya Angelou, not only a civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King Jr and Malcom X, but also a poet. For this particular piece, the protagonist is a woman with many duties described throughout the first stanza, such as “I’ve got the children to tend, the clothes to mend, the floor to mop, the food to shop…” . Not only is she a busy woman, but through the symbolic follow-up in line 14 of the first stanza she states, “And the cotton to pick.”, it is safe to assume that through this symbolism the character is no normal housewife. To add to this assumption, in the final stanza she states, “Sun, rain, curving sky….You’re all that I can call my own.” Through these two lines it is accurate to assume that this particular character is
