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Maya Angelou has sowed the right seed for women liberation in America through her versatile poems, plays and songs. She is a multi-faceted genius. She is an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil rights activist. She has carved her imprints in Hollywood and she is the first black woman director of Hollywood. She has written, produced, directed, and starred for stage, film, and television. In 1971, she wrote a…

"Everything on the collection [Baduizm] is a blend of each one of those things I heard growing up as a black youth," she disclosed in an interview. Black women are solid, however at times, if at any time, do black women get the opportunity to be free. In 1997 with her presentation collection Baduizm, Erykah Badu gallantly showed…

faced at the hands of white prejudice. When Angelou was seven, she was raped by a boyfriend of her mother’s (Williamson). After hearing of the rape, her uncles killed the man. “My seven-and-a-half-year-old logic deduced that my voice had killed him, so I stopped speaking for almost…

“‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers” Analysis Formalist Theory Example In the poem “‘Hope is the Thing with Feathers” Emily Dickinson doesn’t use many different literary devices but uses one in particular a lot. The author uses metaphors most throughout the poem. The first example of this is the title. The title uses a metaphor to call a “thing with feathers,” a bird, hope. It doesn’t say outright that it is a bird but it can be implied because it is a thing with feathers. Even though unrelated,…

great poets by the name of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes wrote two extraordinary poems called “I know why the caged bird sings” and “Democracy”. These two poems open your eye to the word freedom. I choose these two poems because, me personally being of Haitian decent I see how my people are treated and thought of. We think we leave Haiti to be free by coming to America but are we really free in America. I plan to further describe these to poems by analyzing what critics say about both the…

compares the aspirations and the lack of liberties of a caged bird to the lives of African American peoples during and prior to the Civil Rights Movement. Angelou opens his poem with the image of “[a] free bird leap[ing]” who “dares to claim the sky”(I.1,7). This image of a bird soaring, able to enjoy doing what it was made to do, represents people who were free to express themselves, had opportunities to be successful and had the privilege live however they desired. The free bird is a direct…

What is your Cage? What keeps you back from freedom? Maya Angelou wrote an amazing and entertaining autobiography titled I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, about her hard life growing up as a black girl from the South. Among the hardships are things known as "cages" as stated as a metaphor from Paul Dunbar's poem "Sympathy." "Cages" are things that keep people from succeeding in life and being everything they want to be. Some of Maya Angelou’s cages include being black in the 1940's and her…

The Voice of a Leader: Maya Angelou Maya Angelou is most recognized for her Civil Rights-inspired poetry. Though she is much more than just a poet, she was a play-write, actor, professor, singer and dancer (Gillespie, M., Butler, R. J., & Long, R. A., 2008). She held many positions in her life and in all of them she stood out as a leader. In a time when women, like her, were not meant to do much of anything, Maya Angelou stepped out from the crowd to become an inspiring activist and recognized…

playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, and singer. She published autobiographies, essays, and several poems. Maya Angelou earned tons of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. The first of her seven autobiographies were I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was written in 1969. This autobiography tells her life up to the age 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. Also, it was nominated for the National Book Award.…

manager at Random House was inspired by her verse and biography and later persuaded her to think about writing a memoir. The outcome was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became a household name and was distributed in the year 1970 ("Appiah and…