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    Introduction We all have a journey in life: every man and woman. For, women, in particular, the journey is a bit different; Maya Angelou’s journey is a part of the reason she wrote and became the woman she was. Men, Still I Rise, and Phenomenal Woman particularly focus on the phases that women have gone and go through in life. Maya Angelou Background Information Maya Angelou was born April 4, 1928, in St. Louis Missouri. In 1936, after being molested by her mother’s boyfriend, Maya Angelou…

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    Maya Angelou was a well known poet and civil rights activist. In her poem, “Still I Rise” the speaker describes being sassy, and what it’s like to be beaten down but get back up. They talk about being confident to whatever it is that’s bring the speaker down. The speaker taunts the pain. In “Still I Rise,” Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile to let the readers know that when life knocks you down, you have to get back up. In the poem, Maya Angelou uses the poetic device of simile in…

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    The poem we will be learning about today is “Hope” is the thing with Feathers by Emily Dickinson. She is creating a metaphor of Hope through the bird. She is describing hope as a bird “the thing with feathers” that perches in her soul. It sings silent and without hesitate. The Rhythm of hope sounds peaceful “in the Gale,” and it would require a terrifying thunderstorm to ever “abash the little Bird, That kept so many warm.” Emily says that she has overheard the bird of hope “in the chillest…

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    Annie Johnson April 4,1928, and she was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Maya was called Rita in public, she was given the nickname Maya by her older brother who was calling her “my” or “mine”. Her father Bailey Johnson was a doorman and naval dietician, and her mother Vivian Baxter Johnson worked variously worked as a card dealer and nurse. Shortly after their daughter’s birth they had moved their 2 children to Long Beach, California. Three years later they had been divorced and the 2 children had…

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    In the second place, Rochester tells Jane much like a nervous and shy bird. He said “I see intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage; a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. You are still bent on going” (Bronte 119). But, one side Rochester give her authority only to be a listener rather than narrator that means he also want her to be cage bird, and obeyed him. Furthermore, physically, Jane is again…

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    When she says the bird is standing on the grave of dreams she is trying to say that the bird has lost hope and have given up. This brings us to the theme of the poem which is people dreaming of the day when slavery and discrimination no longer exists. I like this poem because it was written for a legitimate reason and the symbolism behind the characters and their actions in the…

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    Maya Angelou is one of the greatest person to ever live. She is known to be dancer, actress, composer, and Hollywood’s first female black director. She is most famous as a writer, poet, essayist, editor, and playwright. Maya has gone through many things in her lifetime. For example, sexual abuse and her parents divorce. Maya was born in St. Louis, MO, on April 4, 1928. Her birth name was Marguerite Johnson. Her family is African American. Maya’s dad was a doorman and her mother was a nurse.…

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    Maya Angelou Prologue The origin of this story is to show case an intellectual woman. I feel honored to introduce a woman such as her. This woman has accomplished so many things that I cannot list them. This woman is so amazing I highly recommend everyone to read this biography about her. Marguerite Johnson or as some may call her Maya Angelou was a highly sophisticated woman. Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928, although she was raised in Stamps, Arkansas. As a…

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    Maya Angelou told her story in her autobiography; I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, as a chapter…

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    This Nonnormative event is chronicled in her autobiography, I know why the caged bird sings. She was fortunate in that her paternal grandmother, who raised her was a shop owner and had the means, while meager to support her and her beloved brother Bailey. Momma Johnson instilled in her good work ethics and a belief…

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