Maya Angelou is a very strongly opinionated woman who wouldn’t let anyone or anything get in her way. She is known for writing a lot of poems that have a lot of meaning in them and that has lead her to her fame in this world. She was around through the racial fights so she helps put those who didn’t understand what it meant to live in a trapped world find a view in the past. In her poem “Still I Rise’ she talks about her indestructible path and this article is going to find more of a message in Mayas poem. In “still I rise” Maya goes on a spill letting everyone know that they will never get her down. She says in the poem “You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.” So they can put all of their energy into trying to get her down but they will fail because she has been through a lot worse which has made her strong enough to handle the little things that we see as a big deal. Maya uses alliteration, personification, and point of view in “Still I Rise” in order to reveal her strength and confidence. …show more content…
Maya Janet my fat face her though and she showed that with personification. “You shoot me with your words” she used this to show how they would be very highly trying to bring them down with words. “ you may cut me with your eyes” meaning that at the time that African-Americans didn’t even get a smile around this era. They got mean ugly looks that screamed “I don’t like your kind”. “ you may kill me with your hatefulness” when this is said she doesn’t mean that they will really kill her but mostly they did. All the hatred was sad and heartbreaking which made her feel as if she was slowly dying inside. It was one of those moments when she knew that there was so much going on that was horrible but she couldn’t do anything about it because of the color of her