Transcendentalism: Still I Rise By Maya Angelou

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In these past weeks we been learning about Transcendentalist which is a vast word with a straight forward meaning. Where people feel empowered and their surrounding surpass their five senses intuition, imagination, overpower, logic, and reason. The source I used to explain transcendentalist was Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. It had a lot of meaning to me and connect to me too. Overall it talked about how she overcomes everyone's hatred toward her, every hateful word and faces every complication thrown at her and uses it to get stronger physically and successed. This poems is a transcendentalist poem by reason of having traits of transcendentalism of mostly confidence, self reliance and free thought. In the poem, traits of transcendentalist