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Don't you take it awful hard. ’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines. Diggin’ in my own backyard. 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.
Don't you take it awful hard. Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines. Diggin' in my own back yard. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your ...
In Maya Angelou’s poem, “Still I Rise,” Angelou uses repetition and rhetorical questions to reinforce her poem’s meaning. Poetic Device 1: Repetition. Repetition is often used in poetry to solidify a key idea or theme. Similar to the refrain of a song, repetition can also be used to create a particular rhythmic effect and set a poem’s ...
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Still I Rise’ is a poem by the American poet Maya Angelou (1928-2014), published in her 1978 collection And Still I Rise. A kind of protest poem which is defiant as well as celebratory, ‘Still I Rise’ is about the power of the human spirit to overcome discrimination and….
Feb 19, 2023 · Maya Angelou ’s landmark poem “Still I Rise” is an expression of grit and resolution of the black community in the face of oppression in the late 20 th century America. The poet-speaker expresses her pains and sufferings in a white-dominated society. But with an underlying tone of assertion, the speaker declares that however hard the ...
Maya Angelou and a Summary of 'Still I Rise'. 'Still I Rise' is an empowering poem about the struggle to overcome prejudice and injustice. It is one of Maya Angelou's most famous and popular poems. When read by victims of wrongdoing, the poem becomes a kind of anthem, a beacon of hope for the oppressed and downtrodden.
These three aspects of oppression—race, class, and sex—must be considered together, “because in our lives they are most often experienced simultaneously.”. Angelou first published “Still I Rise” in 1978, which places the poem in conversation with the Collective’s landmark statement. That said, Angelou’s work also looks back to ...
