In Maya Angelou’s poem it’s a little complicated at first when you read through the stanzas you would think it was written in a heroic couplet sort of pattern but it switches up and seems very free verse but I guess that’s just Maya’s style of writing. There’s definitely personification and symbolism in the poem by Maya making her home Africa into a woman and using her different body parts to represent and describe some of the features her home has. “Deserts her hair / golden her feet / mountains her breasts” (3-5). In “A Far Cry from Africa” in the beginning, it starts off similar to Maya’s poem in sort of in a heroic couplet pattern, but instead of switching up to free verse it goes into an iambic pentameter kind of pattern. The mood begins to shift from positive to
In Maya Angelou’s poem it’s a little complicated at first when you read through the stanzas you would think it was written in a heroic couplet sort of pattern but it switches up and seems very free verse but I guess that’s just Maya’s style of writing. There’s definitely personification and symbolism in the poem by Maya making her home Africa into a woman and using her different body parts to represent and describe some of the features her home has. “Deserts her hair / golden her feet / mountains her breasts” (3-5). In “A Far Cry from Africa” in the beginning, it starts off similar to Maya’s poem in sort of in a heroic couplet pattern, but instead of switching up to free verse it goes into an iambic pentameter kind of pattern. The mood begins to shift from positive to