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The poem is intertwined with figurative language and smiles with similes and metaphors knitted to almost every line. Still I Rise Analysis Poetic Techniques and Figurative Language The poem’s tone and mood have been set in such a way that when a reader finishes reading the poem, he will carry with him a spirit of truthfulness, strength, and a mood for protest against the wrongs done. She has created a mood for protest, asking for justice for her people. The tone’s confidence talks of the strength she has in herself to fight against all the odds.Īlso, it indicates the love and compassion for her race which has been sadly oppressed and put under control for years. Her inner voice screams of all the wrongs that have been done to her while growing up. Throughout the poem, the tone is the tone of a strong woman who screams for justice for her race. The eight stanzas have a rhyming scheme of ABABCC, and the ninth has the rhyming scheme of ABABCCBBB. The poem follows a rhyming scheme of ABCB for the first seven stanzas, and the eight and ninth stanzas follow a different rhyming scheme that knits the story together and gives a solid ending to the poem. The phrase “I rise” has been repeated like a mantra in the last stanza to emphasise it. The poem includes 47 lines in total, giving birth to seven quatrains and two end stanzas. On the one hand, the poem can be seen as a powerful, strong woman warning people of her strength (seen as a perspective of her past life and history) and, on the other hand, a voice for the suppressed black African Americans.
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She (the poet) appreciates her own strength and is confident about what she says. The message given out by the poem is loud and clear- no matter how much there has been tried to oppresses the victims, they will still rise and will rise high above the people who tried to oppress them. Though it was written with oppression in mind, it has a universal appeal. The poem is about the inner voice that finally speaks out in public. The poem is mighty and brings out a message that ‘society’s judgments cannot determine one’s success and that she would break all the boundaries laid by racism and rise above the society and be equal in everyone’s eyes. The poem “Still I Rise” is a voice for the black people, as it talks of the way society has tried to suppress the blacks. Maya Angelou’s most works are regarding her life story- what things she faced when growing up. Her works are really memorable, which speaks out for the oppressed people and is considered a defence for the African Americans.
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She spoke (read- screams) out about the long-oppressed African Americans, knows as the black people (a slang term). She is quite popular among the readers for her seven biographies that focus on her childhood and adult life. She has received a handful of awards for her memorable works and accumulated over more than fifty honorary degrees. Her history of past life made her start writing which not just became a voice for her but also for thousands and thousands of people who have had traumatic experiences and has been oppressed in society for racism and other negative things.īesides being such a talented poet, she is a memoirist and also a civil rights activist. Born in 1928, Maya has faced a traumatic childhood and very problematic adulthood. I am the dream and the hope of the slave.Still I Rise Analysis: Written by Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” was published by The Random House in 1978. In a time when racial tensions are at a high, Angelou’s poem is still just as relevant as it was in 1978, serving as a reminder to us all that through the collective pain and inequality, still we rise.īringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, The message is about the resiliency, strength, and beauty that black communities continue to show through hundreds of years of oppression and discrimination. “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou is one of her most famous poems, written in her third volume of poetry called And Still I Rise, published in 1978.