Maya Angelou Tone

904 Words4 Pages

“Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.” (Shakespeare) For some reason love is a powerful emotion; instead, it brings happiness, hope but sometimes sorrow. This s how it feels for those who intervene with love. While “Still I Rise” and “Daddy” both use the theme of love, they use different tones and figure of sounds to justify the authors personal emotions with the elements of sound.
As a result, both authors introduce the same type of theme, by differencing the meaning of love. The authors from both poems talk about love in drastically different meanings in their choice of literature. As a form of expression towards the topic choice they have written one as a reader can oversee their procedure. …show more content…

The author Maya Angelou has a rather Hopeful and empowered tone in her poem reflecting her emotions about her subject and making her readers feel the same with her choice of words in expression. By choosing a positive route, one as a reader as well feel motivated enough to achieve and think as well with whom comes to a obstacles in our daily life. As she states, “You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll Rise.” (Angelou 3) As in one could attempt to treat her unethical she will still overall in the end be invincible. In contrast the author Sylvia Plath illustrates her side in negative emotions with a traumatized and clueless tone. By choosing a negative despair her readers can as well link to her mind set and even so do a background check about her to understand the why behind the poem. By adhering her background story about what she remembers about her dad. As she states when she was clueless, “I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw.” (Plath 24) Meaning she loved her father yet was scared of him oddly. The love between family would always be there although as through the poem she states the folks around the community hated him and it took her years to finally notice why, he was a Nazi. However, both poems seem rather enthralled to their own perspective when the input of the author effects. Due to the rather