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Maya Angelou writes I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to inform the reader about how rough growing up as a “Unattractive” black child was. She writes the book using the themes of family, race to appearance, and the resistance toward racism that is shown multiple different time. She also uses multiple different symbols throughout the story like the store or the easter dress that her “Momma” makes her to support her themes. Maya supports her themes with the beautiful, intense writing styles that…

Emily Dickinson was an American poet in her time. She was well known for her many works and she was most likely one of the most famous females of her time. Taking a look into her work, a person will see how passionate she was with it. Students and teachers all over the world still use her works today as a method of education in the literature department. Many people still read her works for a good time. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. (Emily Dickinson,…

Race ,Gender, Multi-Ethnicity and Cultural Poetics/Politics of Audre Lorde Abstract: African American women poets, throughout the centuries have always defined themselves and their community in their works. It has been more apparent in literature, especially in poetry. Audre Lorde is an African American writer, radical feminist, womanist, and civil rights activist. Writing poetry was a responsibility for her as it was necessary for her survival and the survival of others. This study considers…

Maya Angelou, born April 4, 1928 in Missouri, was a Civil Rights poet and activist and was an inspiration to many. Maya Angelou served as a voice during the Civil Rights Movement as she showed the brutality of racism, highlighted in her poem, “Still I Rise.” “Still I Rise” is written towards the white oppressors as Maya shows her defiance in overcoming their oppression and speaking up for a change. Maya Angelou lived an eventful life that inspired the themes of many of her poems. Maya Angelou…

The autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings works by singer, poet, writer, and actress Maya Angelou, it is one of the most widely read and taught book by an African American woman. The title of the book comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, "Sympathy." The connection of the poem with the novel is where a little persistence bird (Marguerite) struggles against the bars of the cage life barriers , but she gets up, she rises and pushes forward. Although I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings covers…

my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave” Born as Marguerite Johnson on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri and raised in St. Louis and Stamps Arkansans, Maya Angelou became one of the most renowned and influential voices of her time. Multi-talented barely seems to cover the depth and breadth of Maya Angelou's accomplishments .She was an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet. In Angelou’s work a lot of thoughtful reflections are going on. By the mean of writing,…

like, a depressing discussion. Far from working out how to make their dreams come true, they’re worrying about all the things that might go wrong. They’re worried that even the things they have will be taken away from them by some cruel twist of fate. Maya Angelou’s poem, “Caged Bird” presents a metaphor of two birds that are thought to represent the controversy between optimists and pessimists. The first…

similar to the Egyptians. Not only were the Mayan’s known for their incredible architectural monument building, but they were also known for their calendars and astronomical structures. In the beginning of 250 AD the period is defined as when the Mayas were building large monuments with long count dates. These calendars were used for religious beliefs and were similar to what we call prophecy, the foretelling of the future. The Mayan’s would study the sky and use their knowledge of astronomy…

Joy Harjo Poetry is an awesome and beautiful way for many people to express their feelings. There are many types of poetry and some convey deep thoughts, while some others are more lighthearted. Native American poetry reflects the feelings, the emotions, and the warmth of the poet but also, the way of life of the Native American tribes, and what they felt and dealt with during the fight for their land and way of life. Joy Harjo is one of the best known Native American poets and according to her…

of literature contain some or all of these tenets, the ones i’m going to discuss and analyze today are Still I Rise by Maya Angelou that focuses on self-reliance and stanza 1 and 52 from Song of Myself by Walt Whitman which focuses on all tenants of transcendentalism (and that you will be discussing about the one that's most important 2 you). The poem Still I Rise written by Maya Angelou has a main focus of self-reliance, but can expresses all tenets of transcendentalism…