Maya Angelou

satisfactory for the work I knew was A+ material. What were my problems and what was I not doing to result in such low remarks? I took it upon myself to seek help in the form of literature from writers like Stephen King, Edgar Allen Poe, Maya Angelou, Aristotle and some other incredible individuals in the writing game. What I first noticed was the…

“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life is hard. You’ve got to go out and beat it.”- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was a prominent woman who lead the way for civil rights and spearheaded women’s right and freedoms. These rights and freedoms that Maya is fighting for were previously non-existent. This deficiency of rights can be seen in the Shakespeare play Hamlet in which the few female characters have been treated as though they are less than the men of the play.…

of the social class. Using this to her advantage, Mrs. Viola Cullinan began calling Margaret a different name because her friend suggested it. “ Well, that may be, but the name’s too long. I’d never bother myself. I’d call her Mary if I was you” (Angelou 76). This shows an insight to Mrs. Viola Cullinan’s identity, because it shows how she does what people say, and goes along with it, even though she might not agree. However, Margaret was furious, because her identity is important to her. Even…

Throughout the poem “Alone” by Maya Angelou, the speaker implies that no one can last long in the world with no one on his or her side. The poem starts off as the speaker yearns for a home where she can quench her thirst and where food is always offered, then soon realises that she and everyone who is on their own cannot live with joy for long, since time will soon leave that joy behind. Even the rich, who have all the wealth in the world, cannot survive alone, as happiness is an emotion…

1) We move from the academic observations of Dr. W.E.B. DuBois and the cadences of Langston Hughes at the height of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1937) to the time of the Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) and the much more direct voice of Alice Walker. This poem, "Once," was published in 1968. Make some observations on this poem. Contrast it with the tones and styles of the two authors above, and talk about the differences. How do you respond to this? Discuss. This poem is hard to read at first…

controversial but it is all truth and needs to be shared. My writing style in my fiction pieces consist of dialogue and plot it is helpful because it shows true meaning but at the same time leaves mystery and truth throughout my writing (official Maya Angelou Website). My life helped me write my novels and poems. I knew Nelson Mandela, I joined with Malcolm X, I marched with Gloria Steinem, and I also personally figured out marriage equality, I was well educated on all these examples only…

In “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou, the speaker’s identity is slowly developed throughout the poem so that we are not completely sure of the speaker’s identity. The speaker is a black female that while she is speaking for herself, she is also speaking for an entire population of people just like her. People like her who are determined to rise above the historical oppression saying, “Leaving behind nights of terror and fear/ I rise/ Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear/ I rise…” (lines 35-38).…

They distinguish one person from another and make us all different and unique in our own ways. Traits are not only prevalent in people’s lives in the real world, but are also present in the Maya Angelou’s novel. In “I Know Why the Caged Bird SIngs”, Margaret Johnson shows many character traits. In the novel Maya uses her masculine traits to break down sexist and racist boundaries in the early twentieth century. Marguerette shows masculinity in many different scenes in this book. One of those…

The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton writes about the need for freedom and so does “Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou. In recap, the story writes about slaves who were stolen from Africa and brought to the South. The people that were taken had wings, but being that the ships to the south were so crowded they had to shed their wings to all fit on. Furthermore, they all forgot how to fly, forgetting they could fly all together. At the plantation there a had been on man, Toby, who remembered the…

the earth of carbon dioxide, an unhealthy element in life, and replace it with oxygen, possibly the most important element in life. Trees are one of the most stable and pivotal things on the earth. In the poem, On the Pulse of the Morning, Maya Angelou writes about trees, “Which will not be moved.” She expresses…