Explication Of Woman Works By Maya Angelou

Explication of Maya Angelou’s “woman works” in 1995, Maya Angelou’s poem describing the “jobs” that women have to do, but it did only prove that women work for others, almost all of the time, but that woman are humans and they need a break and the only time woman ever got to sleep was at night time. In the poem Maya Angelou talks about how a woman work all day long, sometimes they had jobs sometimes they just clean up after their lazy husbands or after their children. Maya Angelou said that “ I’ve got children to tend”(1 Angelou) Maya Angelou says that woman have kids and they also have house jobs to do like “the clothes to mend”. These women are hard workers and as the poem goes on we learn that woman would actually like a break from all of

This is saying that she needs a break. When she said “cover me with white, cold icy kisses” that means that refers to the blanket and how she wants to rest in the bed tonight and not do anything but sleep in peace and take a break from all the work she had to every single day of her life. Angelou Also uses imagery to describe how much she really wants to rest. In the poem she said “Sun, rain, curving sky Mountain, oceans, leaf and stone Star shine, moon glow You 're all that I can call my own”(25-31). What she is saying that nature and is the only thing that is actually for her everything else she does during her day is for someone

Overall, Maya Angelou’s poem “ woman work” asks readers to see past their own interests and to see how women actually feel about working at home and at work. Maya Angelou tells us women to do something for our self’s most people would consider it selfish, but it is also selfish of the person she does that work for because she doesn’t get anything for herself not even rest, women can take their freedom as they it comes and take their chances to live life to the fullest without worrying about everything around the house if only someone was to help her out. Now a day 's life changed and women and men have the same equal rights unlike Angelou’s time, but women still work at home more than men ever will. Maya Angelou’s poem expresses a commanding tone and pleading at the same time telling them I am a human too I need a break