![]() ![]() She takes dark, cruel, and hopeless circumstances and expresses them fully in a way that holds such beauty, life, and understanding that dictate the poignant messages her poems send. This critique really captures what Maya Angleou's poetry is about. Maya's poems may not directly relate to use, but they force us to reflect upon ourselves on how the poem impacts our personal experiences. It accurately identifies Anglou's unique rhythm which speaks to the reader in a universal way of the state of a soul in distress. This critique really struck me as true because even though it is not about "Still I Rise", it captures the truth inside of it that everyone can recognize even if they have not experienced anything similar to the circumstances in the poem. Anglou's persona that she creates molds into today's contemporary society but also show women's contrasting roles today compared to in the past. Her work portrays just what she wants for women kind recognition as independent and intelligent. ![]() Angleou's poems were partly set to send messages of a feminist movement. I think that this critique shows how Angelou created a strong female character through her poems and prose which was nothing like how the world viewed women at the time she wrote them. This world of sensuality becomes aįortress against potentially alienating forces, i.e., men, war, oppression of Otherwise destroy and create her despair. Life and sensuality (applying to senses) which produces a transcendence (the quality of extending usual limits) over all which could Loneliness and human distantiation (to create distance) pervadeīoth her love and political poetry, but are counterposed by a glorification of Her autobiographies and poetry reveal a vital need to transform the elements ofĪ stultifying (dulling, making to seem stupid) and destructive personal, social, political and historical milieu Reaction from the energy and have to reassess it, so that ultimately, when we When we read Angelou's poetry, we share the sense of it. If she were the product of Angelou's prose or verse alone.Īngelou has composed poetry from the particulars and the rhythms she knows,Īnd the changes of rhythm themselves become a rhythm, the upsets and restarts inĪn unsteady state of soul which every life has experienced in some place or Self-portrait, assumes a posture in our literature that would not be available ![]() With this achieved, Angelou's "phenomenal woman," as persona and Self-portraits, and even guide the reader to (or back to) the autobiographies. Serve as ancillary, supporting texts for Angelou's more adeptly rendered In their celebration of a particularly defined "phenomenal woman," they Thin as poems but they nevertheless work their way into contemporary literary In short, Angelou's poems are often woefully Where she does appear is in Angelou's own marvelousĪutobiographies, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings and Likely to appear, except perhaps in a negative way, in the feminist verse of our MostĬertainly, this "phenomenal woman," as she terms herself in another poem, is not Unaccounted for in the earlier verse of men and women poets alike. “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.Needless to say, the woman "rising" from these lines is largely “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.” Here are some of Maya Angelou’s best quotes on the power of connection, understanding yourself and motivation. Who hasn’t read the quote, “Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time,” to themselves over and over when gearing up to put themselves out there after being hurt?Īnother one of Angelou’s most famous lines comes from “ Still I Rise,” her 1978 poem: “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.” It is nearly impossible to read that without feeling a rush of empowerment from deep inside your soul.Īngelou was brilliant at many things, but her ability to harness the power of words to inspire people was a truly remarkable feat. ![]() The popularity of Maya Angelou’s quotes is one of the many ways she lives on in the hearts of people. (She died in 2014, at 86.) Through her poetry (“Phenomenal Woman,” “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”), essays (“Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now,” “Even the Stars Look Lonesome”), plays (“The Best of These, “Moon on a Rainbow Shawl”), films (“Sister, Sister” “Down in the Delta”), and civil rights activis m, Angelou’s tremendous impact is still felt widely today. Maya Angelou inspired countless people during her lifetime. ![]()
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